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To: flatsville who wrote (9140)	11/16/1999 1:32:00 PM
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When I read articles like this about a major software supplier at this late stage of the game it makes me wonder... Fair Use/etc... Issue date: 11 November 1999 Article source: Computer Weekly News Oracle users face costly Y2K upgrades Cliff Saran Oracle users may have to fork out for costly software upgrades because of Y2K bugs found in several of the supplier's e-commerce suites. The products - which include the online shop front Oracle Commerce Server, the Internet billing system Oracle Payment Server and Internet Commerce Server - use a non-Y2K-compliant version of Sun's Java development environment. The revelation could be bad news for users. It comes at a time when IT departments have locked down their systems for the millennium roll-over. Users will have to choose between upgrading to the new Oracle software and risk introducing new Y2K bugs, or not upgrading in the knowledge that the software is not Y2K compliant. At the time of writing, Oracle had yet to send out letters informing UK users of the issue. In a white paper on its Web site, Oracle said, "Customers using these versions will be required to migrate to iStore 3i and iPayment 3i, respectively." Migrations tend to involve costly and disruptive upgrades to software. However, a spokesman for Oracle said the database giant has chosen to offer users an upgrade rather than a simpler patch to their existing software because "it is impossible for us to provide a patch for all our products".

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