[WBEL-devel] re: 2nd RC coming?

[John A. Tamplin]

On Tue, 25 Nov 2003, donavan nelson wrote:

> This seems like a good game plan.  I really doubt we are going to find too
> many oracle installations running on WB anyway.  If you can afford an Oracle
> license, aren't you going to just buy RHEL AS?

Actually the database itself is free for application development only from 
otn.oracle.com.  I use it on my home machines to test platform 
independence of my perl-DBI code across Oracle, Informix, PostgreSQL, and 
MySQL.

> One thing I haven't seen addressed is are you going to ship -Final with all
> current RH errata applied?  (If you are, I think RC2 should include it also.)

> RH 7.3 won't stop working on Dec 31st, it just won't be supported.  I don't
> think RH would put off fixing public issues to push them PAST EOL.  In all
> honesty, I think running on 7.3 for a couple months isn't going to be a killer
> as I suspect that any security issues will be fixed by the community.

I agree that Dec31 is not a drop-dead date, but I think by then the users 
will have decided on a migration plan even if they aren't implementing it 
immediately.  So, I think it is more important to have a solid RC2 early 
than it is to have -Final done early.

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