I have a few questions. To whom do we address our concerns, HP , Oracle or
both? Are there on going negotiations between HP and Oracle? What does
desupport mean, no further enhancements or no help with existing releases?

I have one Oracle application running on my e3000 enhancing my main
enterprise software. This means that Oracle's arrogant, flippant and
generally "smart-ass" answer of port to HP-UX does not an option for me.
Even if it where I can't imagine that its an option that can be done by
December. Besides I can just see myself asking upper management for money to
buy a new midrange server.

(PS to Patrick : Naomi survives.)

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Subject:        [HP3000-L] (fwd) MPEiX and Oracle -- End-of-Support?

The following was posted to the newsgroup and since the gateway to the list
is still down I'm crossposting here it as I suspect it is a topic which will
interest a few people here...

On 28 Jun 2000 09:43:41 -0700, in comp.sys.hp.mpe "Dennis Heidner"
<[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>
> FYI.
>
> Oracle is considering a proposal to desupport the HP MPE
> platform. The deadline to provide customer feedback on the
> impact of desupport is 5-JUL-2000 so not many days are left.
> Oracle 7.3.4 is the last product on this platform. Since
> version 7.3.4 is being desupported on 31-DEC-2000, Oracle
> is considering the desupport of this platform as well at
> the same time..--
>
> Oracle's suggested work around is to port to HP-UX.
>
> Remove the "-nospam" from the e-mail address to contact me.
> But if you insist on  spamming, I collect fees for reading, processing
> and deleting  un-soliciited email.
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