Comments on: 10.2.0.4 probably not available before 2008

By: Laurent Schneider

Laurent Schneider — Mon, 04 Feb 2008 13:25:24 +0000

Two weeks ago Metalink wrote in one of my SR:

on AIX platform the 10.2.0.4.0 patchset is currently scheduled for early March 2008.

But I do not believe it

By: Stephen Billcliff

Stephen Billcliff — Mon, 04 Feb 2008 12:48:36 +0000

I raised a TAR with Oracle at the beginning of December about 10.2.0.4 availability on HP-UX Itanium and I got the following reply:

Unfortuantely, We have no official informations about release date of 10.2.0.4 .
10.2.0.4 for HP Itanium is expected out end of MARCH 2008 , But i advice to recontact Support on January for confirmation.

By: Laurent Schneider

Laurent Schneider — Mon, 10 Dec 2007 12:29:57 +0000

I see now “1H CY2008″ for Linux x86_64, so probably summer 2008

By: lutz as sysdba

lutz as sysdba — Thu, 29 Nov 2007 07:58:01 +0000

Hi Jason,
yes, this would be new functionality made visible to us TEST BUNNIES which was there already.
The thing is more that this would add more value to 11g since it does not really make sense to be able to run a test workload only in the same release for testing. I think that 11g is not selling as they had hoped for and that it is a trailing fix to make it more attractive. I would not be surprised if they would even try to extend it to even older releases. There are a lot of customers who would love to know what happens if they migrate from 9i to 11g I think.
=;-)

By: jason arneil

jason arneil — Tue, 27 Nov 2007 16:27:27 +0000

Very interesting about 10.2.0.4, At several UKOUG events in the past few months the support update from an Oracle employee has mentioned that 10.2.0.4 would be out by the end of this year.

I also find it interesting that the workload capture will be available with 10.2.0.4, I wonder if this is causing the delay, in that this is clearly adding new functionality rather than fixing bugs, which is what I thought a patchset was meant to do!

By: Bug 5155885 - cursor_sharing=similar « Mike R’s Blog

Bug 5155885 - cursor_sharing=similar « Mike R’s Blog — Tue, 27 Nov 2007 14:41:17 +0000

[...] Update (27-Nov-2007) It appears the 10.2.0.4 patch set has been pushed into 2008. More information in Laurent Schneider’s blog post. [...]

By: APC

APC — Tue, 27 Nov 2007 14:26:08 +0000

I asked about this at Open World. Apparently, the release for the 10.2.0.4 patch got put back to clear the way for 11g: http://radiofreetooting.blogspot.com/2007/11/oow2k7-simply-cowbell.html

Cheers, APC

By: lutz as sysdba

lutz as sysdba — Tue, 27 Nov 2007 14:16:49 +0000

Hi Laurent,
I was @ CERN the other day and talked to the guy in charge for the beta testing with 10.2.0.4 patch.
And I have seen the patch in demos @ OOW.
Oracle VP Leng Leng Tan had even said that it would be out public the week after OOW, which was obviousely not the case.
I will let you know as soon as I know more.
=;-)