Would you use 9i?

I am starting a new company, I am going to be building a platform which will use Oracle database as it's infrastructure.  It will be a very large application and environment If all goes well.  It will take about a year from start to finish till I will attempt to be live.  I am debating about using 9i or sticking with 8.1.7.  Since it will be in development, I am comfortable within a year 9i should just be about stable, and would be nice to already be on it's features, specially it's OPS features.  And not have to worry about the big move over (and probably costly) in the future.  During development it would be easy to have 8.1.7 and 9i side by side just in case something crops ups and hinders our path.

Anyone have anything bad to say about that idea?  Let them rip, and be honest.

"Do not criticize someone until you walked a mile in their shoes, that way when you criticize them, you are a mile a way and have their shoes."

Christopher R. Spence
Oracle DBA
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  Received on Thu Aug 23 2001 - 14:24:44 CDT