You certainly have it right. I never thought that Oracle's policy actually meant what it said because of the factors you cite. There are only so many resources in Oracle to certify tech stacks. They can really only maintain so many different versions in test and so on. But my CIO took it as gospel and it really bit us.
Allan Nelson On Mar 2, 2009 12:44pm, Niall Litchfield <niall.litchfield@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
That's essentially because the policy enshrines what was always in
fact the case, that because you are buying from a software developer
you really need to be reasonably current. In the apps world for
example 11.5.10.1 is of a similar provenance to 9.2.0.1 on the db
side. It isn't realistic to get support for the latter without
applying patchsets. It surprises me that people believe application
software might be different. Not you but companies that avoid interim
upgrades because of the cost, but which them complain that the
enforced upgrade really costs.
