Re: Would you use 9i?

I'd go for it.

Give yourself a head start by making sure you learn about what 9i can do. Don't just wade in to using 8i to build a 7.3-style application with a few bolt-ons.
Make the newness work for you.

Jonathan Lewis

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-----Original Message-----
To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L <ORACLE-L_at_fatcity.com> Date: 23 August 2001 20:44

|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
|Phone: (978) 322-5744
|Fax: (707) 885-2275
|
|Fuelspot
|73 Princeton Street
|North, Chelmsford 01863
|
|
|
|

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