Re: Oracle 8 and 8i - what are the differences?

From: Pete Sharman <psharman_at_us.oracle.com>
Date: Wed, 14 Apr 1999 09:34:41 -0700
Message-ID: <3714C3A1.A97660BE@us.oracle.com>

Actually it will be 8i squared! ;)

Finn Ellebaek Nielsen wrote:

> Lars Bo Vanting wrote in message <371455D9.E64E967D_at_ex.siemens-sbs.ch>...
> >Hi jklap!
> >
> >Go for 8i, there are so many improvements and new features, simply an
> outstanding
> >Oracle version!
> >No matter you want pure RDBMS or INTERNET features.
> >
> >Lars Bo
> >
> >jklap_at_my-dejanews.com wrote:
> >
> >> What ARE the differences between Oracle 8 and Oracle 8i? Everything on
> >> www.oracle.com and technet primarly talk about 8i, but don't give a
> difference
> >> matrix.
> >>
> >> I've got both Oracle 8.0.x and 8i.1.5 (both yet uninstalled), along with
> a
> >> production system running 7.3.4. We are looking at upgrading the 7.3.4 to
> >> 8something, but what 8something?
> >>
> >> Trying to figuring out the differences from marketing information really
> >> sucks.
> >>
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> >
> >--
> >Lars Bo Vanting
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> >
> >
>
> I understand the confusion and I personally think it was a very bad move to
> start calling it 8i. 8i is basically release 8.1 released in March 1999,
> release 8.0 was released in July 1997. After 8.0 was released new versions
> of 7.3 continued to come out so one would expect this to be the same for
> 8.0, but basically 8.0 is made obsolete by 8.1. One may wonder what the next
> Major release of 8i will be -- 8j?
>
> HTH.
>
> Finn

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Regards

Pete

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