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

Hi,

 Thanks everyone for your opinions/input. I am also of the mind "if it aint broke dont fix it".

The performance issue is really the big one. Government on line will aslo be an issue in the near future and converting powerbuilder client to xml or whatever may be much easier to do on 8i.

Penny for your thoughts.

"Kim,Yongjun" <kjun1017_at_shmail.hanarotel.co.kr> wrote in message news:MW8K5.20$We3.995_at_news.hananet.net...
> Dear,
> Sorry for my silly question.
>
> I don;t think we should upgrade the RECENT version, if we will not use the
> new features.
> If H/W and O/S, such as CPU/memory/OS version, are fulfilled the
 requirement
> for upgrade, total performance will not better.
> The only possible concern is 'DESUPPORT Product'.
>
> Is there anything to consider ?
>
> I wantto hear your Oracle guru's experince.
>
> Regards,
>
> "Rocr" <rolland.cright_at_pwgsc.gc.ca> wrote in message
> news:8t9r2a$8r2_at_shark.ncr.pwgsc.gc.ca...
> > 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 Fri Oct 27 2000 - 09:30:23 CDT