RE: Oracle 10i new releases

Ha I remember Oracle 5 on VM. Ah the joys of minidisks. I started with Oracle on VMS in 1984, but I cannot recall the exact version. BI files, IOR, UFI, RPT and RPF, IAP and IAG when IAP was completely text driven. I was Dba'ing before there was SQL*NET.

Back in those days one was the DBA, the developer etc. The advantage was one fixed one's own mistakes. Sometimes People query, "How did you know what happened?", they think I'm a genius. Little do they know, they made the same blunder I did in 1986.

Ian MacGregor
Stanford Linear Accelerator Center
ian_at_SLAC.Stanford.edu

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Oh... I'm sure they are many other who back farther then that... But, I do remember 6.0.36... As a matter of fact it was 6.0.36.1.53 on IBM VM... Ah the memories...

Tim

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anyone remember the 6 days, 6.0.36 on sunos :)

joe

Mercadante, Thomas F wrote:

>Robert,
>
>I guess what you say makes sense. But why the need to move the release
>level from 8, to 8i, to 9i to 10i all within 5 years? Granted, there
>were huge improvements from 8 to 9i. I guess what I'm arguing for is -
>lets

stay
>at 9i for awhile. There is nothing wrong with 9i release 1 thru 15.
>Are the new features that will be available in 10i really that radical
>that justifies a major release? Give the rest of us a chance to catch
>up to 9i.
>
>
>My feeling is that Oracle will get hurt sooner or later - people will
>just plain not move to the newer release, just to face migrating again
>in just a few months. Makes no sense to me.
>
>Tom Mercadante
>Oracle Certified Professional
>
>
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>
>
>Is it that Oracle's business model is pushing these releases or is it
>the rapid pace of technology change and the demand of the user for
>features?

The
>push to the web, XML, Java, and new feature requests (rename column,
>fk's , drop column, etc...). Then there is competition too that has to
>be considered. If Oracle doesn't "keep up with the Joneses" as it were,
>what kind of market share will it have 5 and 10 years down the line.
>
>So, in my opinion, Oracle really has no choice but to pursue the course
that
>it is. I think they have learned some lessons down the road, and I'm
willing
>to bet that 10.0.1 (or whatever) will be far more stable than 9.0.1
>was.
>
>RF
>
>Robert G. Freeman - Oracle OCP
>Oracle Database Architect
>CSX Midtier Database Administration
>Author of several Oracle books you can find on Amazon.com!
>
>Londo Mollari: Ah, arrogance and stupidity all in the same package. How
>efficient of you.
>
>
>
>
>
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>Sent: Friday, November 08, 2002 12:54 PM
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>
>
>does this bother anybody else as much as it bothers me? just what is
>Oracle's business model for pushing these release's out this fast? are
>there that many new features, or a market to capture, that justifies
>this?
>
>makes no sense to me. the shelf life of an oracle release is now about
>a year and a half.
>
>Tom Mercadante
>Oracle Certified Professional
>
>
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>Sent: Friday, November 08, 2002 11:44 AM
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>
>
>Heard from Tom Kyte that 10i should be out by Dec'03. He also said that
>the code is already frozen and beta testing is going on.
>
>Prakash
>
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>Sent: Thursday, November 07, 2002 14:09
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>
>
>The day we all finish upgrading our databases to 9i.
>
>Sunil Nookala
>DBA
>Dell Corp.
>
>
>
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>Sent: Thursday, November 07, 2002 12:09 PM
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>
>
>Has anyone heard when Oracle will be releasing version 10i?
>
>
>

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