From oracle-l-bounce@freelists.org Thu Jun 17 16:44:42 2004 Return-Path: Received: from air189.startdedicated.com (root@localhost) by orafaq.com (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id i5HLiR031907 for ; Thu, 17 Jun 2004 16:44:37 -0500 X-ClientAddr: 206.53.239.180 Received: from turing.freelists.org (freelists-180.iquest.net [206.53.239.180]) by air189.startdedicated.com (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id i5HLiA631881 for ; Thu, 17 Jun 2004 16:44:20 -0500 Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by turing.freelists.org (Avenir Technologies Mail Multiplex) with ESMTP id 17A1D72E1D4; Thu, 17 Jun 2004 16:24:12 -0500 (EST) Received: from turing.freelists.org ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (turing [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 16934-11; Thu, 17 Jun 2004 16:24:11 -0500 (EST) Received: from turing (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by turing.freelists.org (Avenir Technologies Mail Multiplex) with ESMTP id 2A20372E1CA; Thu, 17 Jun 2004 16:24:11 -0500 (EST) Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list oracle-l); Thu, 17 Jun 2004 16:22:35 -0500 (EST) X-Original-To: oracle-l@freelists.org Delivered-To: oracle-l@freelists.org Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by turing.freelists.org (Avenir Technologies Mail Multiplex) with ESMTP id 8BEDF72DD1B for ; Thu, 17 Jun 2004 16:22:34 -0500 (EST) Received: from turing.freelists.org ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (turing [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 15973-56 for ; Thu, 17 Jun 2004 16:22:34 -0500 (EST) Received: from agminet04.oracle.com (agminet04.oracle.com [141.146.126.231]) by turing.freelists.org (Avenir Technologies Mail Multiplex) with ESMTP id D77EE72DD8D for ; Thu, 17 Jun 2004 16:22:32 -0500 (EST) Received: from rgmgw2.us.oracle.com (rgmgw2.us.oracle.com [138.1.191.11]) by agminet04.oracle.com (Switch-3.1.4/Switch-3.1.0) with ESMTP id i5HLhBrQ004882 for ; Thu, 17 Jun 2004 14:43:12 -0700 Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by rgmgw2.us.oracle.com (Switch-3.1.4/Switch-3.1.0) with SMTP id i5HLhBfO014319 for ; Thu, 17 Jun 2004 15:43:11 -0600 Received: from au.oracle.com (dhcp-amer-vpn-gw2-east-141-144-83-76.vpn.oracle.com [141.144.83.76]) by rgmgw2.us.oracle.com (Switch-3.1.4/Switch-3.1.0) with ESMTP id i5HLgufB014004; Thu, 17 Jun 2004 15:42:59 -0600 Message-Id: <200406172142.i5HLgufB014004@rgmgw2.us.oracle.com> From: Pete Sharman To: oracle-l@freelists.org Cc: Peter Ross Sharman Subject: RE: Oracle 10 Date: Fri, 18 Jun 2004 07:42:54 +1000 X-Sent-Folder-Path: Sent Items X-Mailer: Oracle Connector for Outlook 9.0.4 60130 (10.0.4712) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/html; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by Ecartis X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new at freelists.org X-archive-position: 2948 X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: oracle-l-bounce@freelists.org Errors-To: oracle-l-bounce@freelists.org X-original-sender: peter.sharman@oracle.com Precedence: normal Reply-To: oracle-l@freelists.org X-list: oracle-l X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new at freelists.org

Of course it’s stable. J

Well, did you expect anything else? Seriously, if the downtime / testing cycle that you need to undertake with an upgrade is an issue for you, I would be inclined to skip 9i completely. The fact that you can upgrade direct from 8.1.7 to 10g and the extension of support for 8i till the end of the year was done specifically to help you do that. There are some customers for whom it is a major problem to get agreement for an upgrade, so if the product is stable and there’s no compelling reason to move to 9i (about the only one of which I can think of would be ISV support) then I would go straight to 10g.

Pete

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Curious on what the crowd feels about Version 10.

We are currently on 8.1.7.4. When we upgrade, should we even worry about Version 9 ? Or just skip directly to the latest 10 ? Is it stable ? Any major issues that folks are waiting on getting fixed ?

Thanks for any insight.

Kevin

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