[sakai2-tcc] draft statement on end of support for Oracle 9

[Seth Theriault]

Hello,

As discussed in Los Angeles, we should consider officially 
dropping support for Oracle 9 and lower as of Sakai 2.8.1 (and 
2.7.2).

Some reasons for this include:

- Oracle 9 has been EOL'd for at least a year.
- In at least one case, our conversion scripts use SQL directives that are only available in Oracle 10 and later
- Institutions supporting QA servers no longer use Oracle 9

I propose the following statement be adopted:

"The Sakai CLE Technical Coordination Committee announces the end 
of formal support for Oracle 9.2 and earlier, starting with the 
release of the upcoming 2.8.1 and 2.7.2 maintenance releases.

Oracle 9.2 reached the end of its formal "Extend Support" 
coverage in July 2010. In addition, many institutions in the 
Sakai community are using more recent versions of Oracle, 
including all of those hosting Sakai QA servers for community 
use. Finally, some of the current Oracle conversion scripts use 
features that are only available in later versions."

Let's discuss this for a week or so. We probably have to confirm 
some of the above, but you get the geenral idea.

Seth