September 2004
Intermediate to advanced
192 pages
3h 45m
English
book
End of Software, The: Finding Security, Flexibility, and Profit in the On Demand Future
by Timothy Chou
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Whoa, There
With all these difficulties, a few brave CIOs are fighting to push back the desupport dates. In July 2001, 58 members of the 2,200-member independent Oracle Applications Users Group (OAUG) signed a petition urging Oracle to extend the support date for version 10.7 of its ERP software from June 2002 to December 2004. This petition came after Oracle had already extended the desupport date for 10.7 from June 2001.
In the end, Oracle and the OAUG compromised and the desupport date was extended to June 2003. Similar to Oracle, the other major enterprise vendors—J.D. Edwards, PeopleSoft, SAP, and Siebel—have released ambitious upgrades of their software in the past few years and have all extended desupport dates for previous versions in ...
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