Alfresco 3 Stable oracle upgrade db script

[skorde]

Hi
I am using alfresco 2.1 CE with oracle db and I want to upgrade it to Alfresco 3 Stable version.While upgrade , I am getting following error

The schema script could not be found at location classpath:alfresco/dbscripts/upgrade/2.2/${db.script.dialect}/AlfrescoSchemaUpdate-2.2-ACL.sql

Could you please provide me oracle upgrade schema script so that I can upgrade my community version to stable version

[mikeh]

HI

Sorry, we no longer support upgrading to the Labs version with proprietary ("closed source") databases such as Oracle and MS SQL Server.

Thanks,
Mike

[jzulu2000]

Beautiful!

[mikeh]

Beautiful!

I'm assuming that's a sarcastic response..?

Without getting into an argument, we think it's reasonable that the "free and open" version of Alfresco works only with "free and open" application servers and databases. If you're willing to pay for a proprietary database then we believe you should be willing to pay for Alfresco too.

Mike

[jzulu2000]

Hello Mike

I'm sorry for this sarcastic comment, but I though it was the only way of catching your attention.. I've tried some questions before some important questions in the forum with no response at all.

My point is that we was using Alfresco 2.1 as a tecnology enabler in our organization and we are planning to upgrade to the commercial license soon; we are still using alfresco 2.1 and decided to evaluate alf3 to see if it's worth buying it given its enhancements… but when we tried to migrate it, it surprised us all with this restriction.

I don't know what other choice do we have.. maybe a commercial trial?

Thank you for your reply, and sorry again about the sarcasm!

[mikeh]

Hi

I don't know what other choice do we have.. maybe a commercial trial?

That would probably be your best option for an evaluation, yes. Although the Enterprise trials are 30 days by default, we have been known to extend these in the past; we realise some customers need longer to fully evaluate the new and changed features.

Thank you for your reply, and sorry again about the sarcasm!

No problem!  :wink:

Thanks,
Mike

[jzulu2000]

By the way… I think Alfresco not only gets benefited by the money the users of the Enterprise pay… I think there's a lot of value in the contributions of the comunity.

Me and my people had made a lot of contributions to the Alf community… those contributions were possible because we Installed Alfresco using Oracle as our database. If Alfresco would tell us we can not use oracle, maybe our organization wouldn't have alfresco because of the administrative costs we would incur by installing a new data base. If an organization already has Oracle and decided use an ECM like Alfresco, the normal thing is to use that database, not use a new one, even if it's in evaluation time, wich could take normally more than 30 days as you said.

[jdaristizabal]

I'm not agree with the comment…

If you're willing to pay for a proprietary database then we believe you should be willing to pay for Alfresco too.

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What I see is that you are forcing people to buy Alfresco just because they have a proprietary database. That is no free software… you should let them take the decision not force them to take it….

In my opinion you made a big mistake…

[mikeh]

Thanks for the feedback guys - I'll make sure the decision-makers are aware of this conversation.

Thanks,
Mike

[jzulu2000]

Thanks Mike, that would be great!

I forgot… customers could be using a non paying version of Oracle, so when you said

If you're willing to pay for a proprietary database then we believe you should be willing to pay for Alfresco too

won't be necesarily true at all.