Considering Oracle bought part of the "RAC Technology" from Compaq/Digital (Tru64).... On 4/3/06, oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx <oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > >>>In fact, the reason for my original post was that I had seen > >>>the marketing presentation, and we had an Oracle customer > >>>engineer coming in to do an additional presentation to > >>>management. I sprung some of the stuff we've been > >>>discussing here, and got him to back off and say: > >>> > >>>In 99.5% of all cases, you can upgrade without downtime. > > 99.5% of all Critical Patch Updates are total planned outages is more > like it. > > Oracle field tried to use the fictional "rooling upgrade" as a > smoking gun for not using a shared Oracle Home...this in spite > of the fact that Tru64 and Sequent customers had been doing it > for eons... > > -- > //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l > > >