Discoverer and DAC

It looks like you are trying to meet the needs of the businesses acquired over the past few years by drastically changing your business intelligence approach. How are Discoverer users going to fit into the new scheme of things. I see questions on Discoverer from companies using earlier releases of Discoverer like 4.X and 5.X.

Oracle is commiitted to preserving the committments made to customers using Discoverer.
http://www.oracle.com/technology/products/discoverer/pdf/discoverer_sod_march2008.pdf
The basic idea is Preserve, Protect, Extend.
As an individual though (prior to my current role I was primarily a Discoverer Consultant for Oracle) I would expand my skills a much as possible in the areas of BI EE and BI Applications. These solutions are getting a lot of traction in the marketplace and are at the top of many solution short lists. You will do yourself a great service if you start to learn BI EE and BI Applications.

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