[sakai2-tcc] Oracle Database Support

[Beth Kirschner]

Hi all,

Michigan is looking into upgrading its Oracle database to Oracle 11g,  
and I wonder if it's time for Sakai to revisit the supported database/ 
Oracle versions. According to our release page (http://source.sakaiproject.org/release/2.7.0/ 
), we support Oracle 9i and 10g. According to wikipedia (the only  
place I could find an easy timeline of oracle releases), Oracle  
released its database versions as follows:

• 2001: Oracle9i went into release
• 2003: Oracle Corporation released Oracle Database 10g
• 2007: Oracle Corporation released Oracle Database 11g

So this means we're supporting Oracle 9i (9 years old), and not  
supporting the latest Oracle 11g release (3 years old). I suppose that  
as long as we're running QA servers on the various Oracle versions, we  
can count that as "supported", but perhaps there are other criteria  
for "supported"? Michigan can probably offer a QA server running  
against Oracle 11g, perhaps next year (2011), but the larger question  
of what versions do we officially "support" needs to be decided by  
some group...

Thoughts?

- Beth