End of life
July 27th, 2006 by Peter Scott
Overnight in my email I received a desupport notice for Oracle Warehouse Builders 9.2 and 10.1
One of my customers has DW built on OWB 9.2 and is normally ‘new release adverse’ that if there are no significant problems and it does the job then why upgrade a stable system? But paramount is that desire to keep the top level of vendor support. Upgrades tend to happen, shall we say, late in the life cycle.
Looking at the end of error correction support dates I see that the 9.2 release will be in support for a few months longer than the 10.1 release. This is one of those puzzling things as to upgrade from OWB 9.2 to 10.2 you must upgrade through the 10.1 release first as there is no certified direct upgrade route. Although I imagine that Oracle will support 10.1 as part of the upgrade to 10.2 - it’s their custom, I think I will be better off getting the customer to do the upgrade whilst both versions are in full support
July 28th, 2006 at 12:40 pm
I’m in a similar position, although there is enough of a doubt in my customer’s mind that they are thinking of just re-coding their mappings in Informatica. The OWB suite they have was just a proof of concept and Informatica is their normal ETL tool.
Having said that if I can prove that their existing mappings can be seamlessly upgraded to 10.2 without effort from anyone but the DBA I may persuade them to keep OWB around for a while longer.