RE: desupport - end of an era
- From: "Goulet, Richard" <Richard.Goulet@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <barb.baker@xxxxxxxxx>, <oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 15 Apr 2011 08:41:57 -0400
Barb,
Why? I started out on VMS MANY years ago, VAX/VMS. When DEC
died/was acquired by HP we all knew that the days were numbered for both
the VAX line and VMS as well. So it's just a continuation of the
consolidation/elimination of platforms and operating systems that is
really driven by customer demand. Don't forget that a year ago HP
stopped supporting the HP-3000 line of servers and the MPE operating
system. Last Oracle release on MPE was 7.2. and that was a year before
HP announced the end of MPE. That brought such a furor from HP-3000
professionals, some who had spent their entire career working on that
platform, that one was worried if HP would survive. And at one time
HP-UX was Oracle's preferred development platform, today it's most
likely Solaris, though they seem to release Linux versions very quickly
too.
I remember one Oracle or IOUG article which stated that "DBA's
should be the agents of change". Well here you are, your now an agent
of change. BTW: We have A VMS server here, no support folks in
operations, and I can't wait till it hits the dumpster. (Kept me up all
night Tuesday when it decided to fry a couple of CPU's.)
Dick Goulet
Senior Oracle DBA/NA Team Leader
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