Dear marvelous MPE community,

Does any of you tried the very last Oracle release available on MPE, that is
7.3.4.5? It is available as a 12 Mb patchset to be applied over a 7.3.4.4
installation. I've been recommended to install it to (expectingly) solve a
bug that happenned only once. I'm a little bit reluctant to do so because my
7.3.4.4 installation, enhanced with patches for bugs 1078588 (mandatory!)
and 1095494, is quite stable and satisfactory. If someone can express any
comments on that topic, either good or bad, it might help the few of us who
rides Oracle againsts the odds...

I don't remember if I shared my thoughts about the de-support of Oracle on
MPE, so here it is. I believe it's a shame Oracle rdbms will not evolve
anymore on MPE. MPE is a very good and reliable OS, and in trying to make it
more "open", making it Posix compliant is not enough: there should be some
products that use that compliance. I still think Oracle rdbms is a major one
and its disappearance might be tragic. Also, I wonder if Oracle will
continue to support MPE as a SQL*Net client (that is, allow a MPE program to
access an Oracle db on the network) and if the de-support notice includes
the gateway to Image/SQL (I asked Oracle Corp. about that and I'm still
waiting for an answer). If not, what are we going to do with our MPE systems
accessing Oracle? Oh, what a mess...

This might be my last post to this newsgroup, since I have to leave my
company in less than 2 months. I don't know yet what exactly I'm going to
do, but unfortunately there should be very few MPE in the paths my life is
awaiting for me to walk on. There might be more Oracle, though. ;-)

--
Michel Gauthier
(please remove REMOVEIT from my email address)