Oracle RESTART deprecation announcement got withdrawn

Oracle Restart Deprecation announcementgot withdrawnVery good news for all customers using Oracle RESTART:
The Oracle RESTART deprecation announcement got withdrawn.

I have blogged in the past several times about Oracle RESTART of course either regarding upgrade, downgrade and patching:

And one of the customers I work with for quite a while, Swiss Mobiliar Insurance uses Oracle RESTART for all their Oracle Database environments:

The question all customers I deal with who use Oracle RESTART: How long will Oracle support it? And will there be a successor product? The customers raised this question because of the Deprecation Announcement Oracle published a while ago.

Oracle RESTART deprecation announcement got withdrawn

Today I’m sitting in a presentation at the OTN Tour stop in Montevideo, Uruguay and watching Markus Michalewicz, Senior Director Product Management RAC, presenting and showing this slide:

Oracle RESTART deprecation announcement got withdrawn

It’s true. Oracle withdrew the deprecation announcement for Oracle Restart as of July 10, 2017.

Please find the official notice in MOS Note: 1584742.1 – Withdrawn: Deprecation Announcement of Oracle Restart with Oracle Database 12c.

These are very good news for a lot of customers out there.

–Mike

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