On 10/12/05, Adrocknaphobia <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > It just seems a bit hard to fault MM and DataDirect on this one. I > don't see how they can forecast what Oracle will be doing in future > releases. When you got CF they certified that it would work on the > most recent version of Oracle 10g at the time. I don't think anyone > every claimed that it would continue to work for all future revisions. >
Understood, but most vendors of the calibur of Macromedia and Oracle are partners, meaning that they're going to receive significant (enough) advance notice of pending releases. Macromedia certainly isn't an "end-user" in the sense that they have to go to Oracle's download site to check for new releases. Further, the initial release of Oracle R2 (which was only for Linux) was in July. The other versions came out in early-to-mid August and Windows finally on 9/8. Merrimack came out at the end of September. So even assuming that Macromedia had found out by going to their downloads page, there was still months of warning. Now, you don't just throw in a set of drivers to Merrimack without significant regression testing, which is why I'm sure they were left out of the release cycle. I'm certainly not faulting them for making a sound business decision like that. But it's hard to criticize developers for upgrading to Release 2 when it has been out for as long as it has and other third-party vendors have done their part in upgrading their apps (anecdotally, our CRM vendor had the necessary driver patch to us within a day or R2's July release). All of the above being said, I know Stephen and the Macromedia people are on top of this and hopefully this whole discussion is moot in short order. And, like I said, clarification in the Release Notes for Merrimack would have gone a long way toward raising the necessary red-flag in advance of any upgrade. Regards, Dave. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Logware (www.logware.us): a new and convenient web-based time tracking application. Start tracking and documenting hours spent on a project or with a client with Logware today. Try it for free with a 15 day trial account. http://www.houseoffusion.com/banners/view.cfm?bannerid=67 Message: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=i:4:220837 Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/threads.cfm/4 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=s:4 Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4 Donations & Support: http://www.houseoffusion.com/tiny.cfm/54
