Re: why upgrade from 7.3.4 to 8.1.x???

According to the Oracle product desupport matrix, the Error Correction End Date for 7.3.4 is December of this year. They will eliminate active support in December of 2003.

I contract for a gov't agency that has a policy in place that prohibits using software that is more than 2 releases old. Maybe your agency has something similar. Nothing makes bureaucrats sweat more than policy violations.

Perhaps you could set up an instance at 8.1.6 and demonstrate the performance gains.

The arguments you have in your favor are far from specious and could potentially save time and money. Staying at the older release could be wasting our tax dollars.

On Thu, 26 Oct 2000 13:53:12 -0400, "Rocr" <rolland.cright_at_pwgsc.gc.ca> wrote:

>I am a consultant with the federal gov't. We have an older system that is
>served by an oracle 7.3.4. db. Development is ongoing and the main tool
>used is PowerBuilder. There was a move to upgrade to 8.1.6 but that has
>recently been poo-poo'd because they (bureaucrats) don't think it is
>necessary.
>
>I have brought to their attention the fact that 7.3.4. will no longer be
>supported and the performance gains we were expecting with cost based
>optimization will no longer be realized by staying with a rules based
>optimizer.
>
>Besides these two points, performance of the optimizer and support, are
>there any good arguments that I can bring forward in order to push the
>conversion ahead?
>
>Help me Spock...
>
>
Received on Thu Oct 26 2000 - 13:54:25 CDT