On Thu, Jun 5, 2014 at 9:52 PM, Hans Forbrich <fuzzy.graybeard@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Three things come to mind > > 1) The non-multi-tenant architecture is known as the 'Pre-12c' > architecture. In other words, in the future, we will have no choice. > I agree that the wording and marketing tends to point in that direction. However I consider it unlikely that the old architecture will disappear any time soon for one major reason. Multi-tenant has been introduced as an extra cost option, and its an option I think a reasonable number of customers, but by no means all will pay for. A future decision for Oracle to drop support for the option would have to do one or more of the below (or some other smart alternative). - make multi-tenant part of the base license killing a revenue stream. - make existing customers who don't see value in multi-tenant pay for it (reducing a revenue stream). - make it cost neutral or advantageous to move to multi-tenant (perhaps by playing with overall discount rates for those who purchase it) - allow multi-tenant for SE customers I suspect that any of the above will be difficult and have unexpected side effects. -- Niall Litchfield Oracle DBA http://www.orawin.info