End of life

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