We have still a Oracle 8i with our Baan 5c. So far we have a "nicely running System".

Now our Oracle is not supported anymore. But what are the benefits of a supported Oracle, if you have no contract with Oracle?

Let's say, if you have just a contract with Baan:
- How does Oracle support you in case of a supported version vs. a not supported version?
- How does Baan support you with database questions?

If everything runs fine and you upgrade your database, for sure you will have to solve a lot of problems. Is it worth to do that?

At some point Baan will de-support your oracle version. (as a matter of fact, Baan has already de-supported your version of oracle..)

So - let's assume you need a patch from Infor for MRP. They give you the latest, But it requires a new ottstprepdll, you go to apply that, but you need a more recent tools standards to make that work.

Tools standards are porting set dependent.

You can't move to the latest porting set because that porting set doesn't work with Oracle 8i because baan's made a change to the ora8_srv6.1 to make it work with 11g.

So now you can't apply the patch because of a seemingly unrelated issue.

Dave

Hi Dave,

I see. Interesting for me, that Baan also doesn't support this oracle version anymore.

OK, we will see what to do.

Thanks

Yes, baan ties their support to the DB vendors. So once a vendor doesn't support it, they stop.

(it usually still works, but they don't guarantee it anymore...)

Dave