Re: Oracle 8, How good is it?

Well, AFAIK, Oracle 8 is not yet available in 'production' form. I've got the Beta 2 release and have had a quick play around with it, and no it isn't a 'fully OO' database, but then Oracle aren't really claiming that for it now.

In it's present state I wouldn't deploy a live system with it, but that still shouldn't stop you doing some development on it. Get in touch with Oracle and get a copy of the Beta (or whatever is shipping now) and have a play around yourself to see if it's right for you.

As for your current development, stick with Oracle 7.3 - as no, it will not become 'out-of-date' overnight. Besides, you can always migrate across to Oracle 8 at a later stage when you've got more time and a stable production environment. That's my opinion, anyway. :-)

Steve Phelan.

zhang, sean wrote:

> Our company is in the middle of developing a new database system
> using ORACLE 7.3.2.3, and we know ORACLE 8 is out now, it's
> always tempting to get the newest Oracle version for fears that
> the current version will soon be too old and later upgrading will
> be costy. Has anybody tried Oracle 8 ? If so, can you give
> me some ideas how good Oracle 8 is. Is Oracle 8 an object_oriented
> database system instead of relational database system
> like Oracle 7? Thank you for your advices.
>
> Sean zhang
> <zhang_at_visi.net>
Received on Thu Jun 12 1997 - 00:00:00 CDT