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In article <3527A888.580937A5_at_euronet.nl>, wmeijers_at_euronet.nl wrote:
>Subject: Oracle 7 or 8; preference???
>From: wmeijers_at_euronet.nl
>Organization: EuroNet Internet
>Date: 5 Apr 1998 15:46:32 GMT
>Newsgroups: comp.databases.oracle.server
>
>Our company currently runs (a number of ) Oracle 7 databases on SCO
>UnixWare.
>We are currently in the process of "upgrading" part of our
>infrastructure. This
>will include a new database server environment, probably based on
>HP9000.
>
>Question is: is it a good idea to move to Oracle 8 or is 7 (still) more
>stable?
>Note that we don't need to migrate existing tables, we're starting from
>scratch
>here! Anybody out there having experiences (good or bad) with Oracle 8
>on
>HP-UX? We need a reliable, redundant environment. Our DBA still has some
>
>doubts regarding Oracle 8, 'cause its relatively new and he doesn't like
>'0'
>version numbers very much :-)
>
>Can anybody out there give me some advice?? I would prefer moving to '8'
>
>because of the OO options in there.
>
>Thanks,
>Wouter.
>
I would say : go for oracle 8.04 on HP-UX. At the moment I am investigating this for a client in the same situation. Big database conversions from 7 to 8 might be a little problematic.
Ronald
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