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.
>

I forgot: Migrating via exp/imp should be the easiest way to migrate from 7.3 to 8.1 and even to 9i.

Uwe

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