Wasn't it 5 years between the release of 11 and 12? Likely because of the change to pluggable dbs. I think this was a major code re-write. For the past 10-12 years they had been doing 3 year release cycles. Oracle 12 was release end of 2013 right? Most people don't move to the next release until the .2 release anyway. So you likely won't see that many businesses actually using it until next year. I work in a hosting data center. We have over 100+ customers. No one is using 12c yet. We have installed on some servers just for DBAs so we can get a hang of the features and hold presentations for each other. I would think 2016 at the earliest for the next release. On Sat, Nov 8, 2014 at 8:59 AM, Norman Dunbar <oracle@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On 05/11/14 17:06, Patrice sur GMail wrote: > >> I am wondering whether Oracle will skip 13 the way some apartment >> buildings and hotels refuse to have a 13th floor... >> > > Maybe it's just me, but all those superstitious hotels etc that "don't" > have a 13th floor do actually have one, they just number if differently. Go > outside and count - 13 is definitely there, usually between 12 and 14! ;-) > > They might call it 12a or 14, but they are fooling nobody. Except the > other superstitious people who, for some reason, think that a number has > bad effects. Sigh! > > > Cheers, > Norm. > > -- > Norman Dunbar > Dunbar IT Consultants Ltd > > Registered address: > 27a Lidget Hill > Pudsey > West Yorkshire > United Kingdom > LS28 7LG > > Company Number: 05132767 > -- > //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l > > >