10g or 9.2?

Hi,

   Our small business uses 8.0.5 Standard Edition for 20-60 user applications. Lots of stored procedures, Powerbuilder 6.5, MS .Net 1.1. We would like to upgrade to a new version and are deciding between 9i or 10g.

   If we go with 10g then we are offered RAC free with Standard Edition otherwise we must upgrade to Enterprise Edition in 9.2. That appears to be the main benefit of 10.2

   10.2 is 2 months out of beta and 9.2 will be supported until (very rough sales estimate 2009).  

   Some developers wish to go to 10g so they dont need to upgrade again for a while. One DBA thinks 10g is too new. One DBA thinks RAC is easy. I recall Oracle Parallel Server was a bear and I am not sure what benefits RAC will give us with our small 2 node dual CPU server which already has interfaces/webapplications on the non-Oracle node.

   If it takes 9 months to migrate, 10g will be out for 11 months. Are they are reasons not to go directly to 10g?

Tim Received on Fri May 07 2004 - 16:46:20 CDT