Is Support for 9i RDBMS in OEM going to be dropped ?

How many customers run their critical apps on so called "old" 9i RDBMS databases ?
We have a few in our company. One of the reasons for not upgrading is because we have too much invested in it and the world appears to have become very change averse when it comes to continual migrations to new products. The old "if it aint broke, dont fix it" idea, where IT spend is tight, is actually proving to be quite a saving in the short term.
I am starting to see cracks in the OEM armour. The 10.2.0.5 agent has a bug that causes core dumps and other issues with 9.2.0.7 RDBMS targets. In some scenario's this is a ticking bomb where an agent happily monitors a lower release, then it gets patched and the monitoring tools start to hose the alert log and get incident management teams pointing the finger at the tools guy... Oracle's response is to patch the database, however in what world do we live in when a monitoring tool forces the monitored target into a patch or forget it mode of working? The development cycles in Oracle appear to be very much focused on "next release" productivity and are increasingly causing us in-life support pain in having to justify why they should fix bugs in their products that they sell us.
Given that there is little change in 9.2 where 9.2.0.8 is the last release and OEM 10.2 has extensive support until 2014, are we being sold short ? The support matrix for the agents at 10.2.0.5 wont certify anything less that 9.2.0.8 now, but funnily enough, they do support 9.2.0.7 as a repository for OEM... Without getting into too much "is it certified or not" discussion, I just think that OEM development need to tread carefully with "new features" where the cost of them is dropping old ones that were bought by the customer for a very specific reason.
Upshot is that running at 10.2.0.4 agent will support 9.2.0.7, and 10.2.0.5 agent wont do this without backport/engineering assistance which is being resisted.
So how can I support OEM if I cant patch agents to 10.2.0.5 ?
I love oracle products, I've made a career out of doing so, but I find it extremely frustrating for a monitoring product to be allowed to dismiss certain versions of targets under the banner of progress. Perhaps do this in an 11g release of oem, but not half way through the evolution of 10.2 !
Edited by: broughp on Feb 10, 2010 11:13 PM
Edited by: broughp on Feb 10, 2010 11:25 PM

very much appreciated thanks.
Just a word though as an avid nokia/symbian fan, the new partnership with microsoft must surely make those in symbian development feel a little dejected but hey guys this is your opportunity to buck your ideas up and give us some kickass UI improvements before symbian is gone forever.
You never know if everyone begins raving over how much better s^3/s^4 is in the future the platform may be saved or at least gain a significant extension.
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