Thanks - That is what I have started developing on and hoped that that would
cover the vast majority. At present I am not using anything that I do not
believe will work on 8 either. Eventually the API will be published so that
users could create their own data tiers with other DB's
thanks,
--
Bruce J Hafner
http://www.siliconmindset.com
Flow charting, Process Maps for Business
"KevJohnP" <nospam_at_nowhere.com> wrote in message
news:Nem0b.120805$JA5.2755305_at_news.xtra.co.nz...
> Hi Bruce
>
> Your question can be interpreted a number of ways; version as in product
> (Personal, Standard and Enterprise) or version as in release (8i, 9i
etc.).
>
> The differences between Standard edition and Enterprise edition are
> documented in the New Features document at http://tahiti.oracle.com -
> for software vendors who do not need EE features it is common to support
> Standard edition as the cost difference between the two is significant
> for your customers. If it works on Standard it will work on Enterprise.
>
> In terms of which release, Oracle tend to have long term support for
> their current and previous releases. So with the imminent arrival of
> release 10G, Oracle will put 8i (8.1.7) on desupport notice and will
> make 9.2 the terminal release of 9i - meaning 9.2 will be around and
> supported for a good number of years.
>
> So unless you have other reasons to do so (only reasons I can think of
> are that 8i supported a few of the more exotic unix flavours and was
> available for some 32bit Unix hardware where 9i is 64bit only on Unix I
> believe) I would go for Oracle 9.2 Standard Edition.
>
> KJP
>
> earthink wrote:
>
> > What is the most prevalent version of Oracle Database Server in Use.
> > Looking make product compatible with largest user base.
> >
> > Thanks
> >
>
Received on Tue Aug 19 2003 - 08:12:27 CDT
