Re: upgrading 7.3.4 to ???

Cristian Veronesi wrote:
>
> Dear all,
> we are going to buy a new database server so it's a great occasion for
> migrate from our old (but good and stable :) Oracle 7.3.4.
> General question: if you wore my hat, will you move to 8.1.7 or will you
> jump
> directly to 9.0.1?
> (Platform availability is not a problem because we have to move from our
> desupported platform - SCO Openserver - to a new platform so our choice
> will probably be Linux.)
> Specific questions: is 9.0.1 already stable or have I to wait for a
> higher 9.0.x release? On the other hand, do you think that 8.1.7 will
> continue to live for a while or do you think that it will be desupported
> before the end of 2001?
> Another important item: assuming that 8.1.7 is able to read 7.3.4 export
> files, can I make the same assumption for 9i? Otherwise I don't know how
> to migrate data.

Although Larry E. claims that Oracle 9i is much more reliable than 8i I would not take the risk migrating to the first sub-minor release of a new major release. This is especially since 9i in not yet fully doumented on the technet.

8.1.7 on Linux is pretty mature compared to 8.0 and 8.1.6 although there are some known issues. But no Oracle release is and will ever be bug free.

I haven't found a desupport notice for 8.1.7 and expect it to be supported for a rather long time.

Uwe

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