RE: desupport - end of an era

  • From: D'Hooge Freek <Freek.DHooge@xxxxxxxxx>
  • To: "barb.baker@xxxxxxxxx" <barb.baker@xxxxxxxxx>, "oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx" <oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Thu, 14 Apr 2011 18:22:36 +0200

"The terminal releases for OpenVMS on Itanium will be Oracle Database 10.2.0.5"

10.2.0.5, no 11.1 or 11.2

OpenVMS was already long abandoned by Oracle
They just made if official now


Freek D'Hooge
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From: oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On 
Behalf Of Barbara Baker
Sent: donderdag 14 april 2011 18:14
To: oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: desupport - end of an era

This made me sad.

Dear Oracle Rdb and Oracle Database on OpenVMS Customers,

     On Tuesday, March 22nd , Oracle announced that we are discontinuing all 
new software 
     development on the Intel Itanium   microprocessor.
     The terminal releases for OpenVMS on Itanium will be Oracle Database 
10.2.0.5 and Oracle Rdb product family 7.3.

Obviously I knew it was coming, but seeing it in print still made me sad.
sigh.


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