It is silly to talk about whether Oracle will support another company's product. The real question is, "Will Oracle support their databases involved?" The answer is, "Yes, of course they will." There is nothing special about the databases. They are just ordinary databases to which ordinary SQL statements are applied.

It is really rather easy to parse the log files and generate SQL to make equivalent changes to another database - it does not even have to be an Oracle database. The product only has to understand the change vectors for actual table row changes. All the change vectors for rollback segments, indexes, space management and so on can be ignored. There might be a few complications with things like LOBs and IOTs, or the vendor might just require that you not use these more advanced Oracle features. Sure the vendor could have bugs in their code, so you have to satisfy yourself with the quality of their product, and their ability to support it. You also have to be willing to work within their restrictions. Beyond that, whether a particular Oracle sales rep understands the technology and is comfortable with it should not concern you.

A team within our company is looking into several options for high availability. Among those options are log-based replication as used in several 3rd party tools. However, with respect to ANY form of log-based replication, our local Oracle sales rep. states: "Oracle will NOT support this 3rd party feature because of the high potential for corruption of data." Obviously management is questioning the team's mental stability to even suggest such an option. Is data corruption using this technique a common occurance or is our sales rep. just quoting policy.