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Re: 10g or 9.2?

From: Tim Smith <timasmith_at_hotmail.com>
Date: 9 May 2004 20:10:03 -0700
Message-ID: <a7234bb1.0405091910.4ebe4210@posting.google.com>


I have no idea :-) We are looking to contact Sybase and find out what is supported with which version of Oracle.

<olivier> wrote in message news:<409dda5a$0$13087$636a15ce_at_news.free.fr>...
> It is time to migrate powerbuilder too !
> Which db driver will you use with pb6.5.1 ?
>
> "Tim Smith" <timasmith_at_hotmail.com> a écrit dans le message de
> news:a7234bb1.0405071346.316407_at_posting.google.com...
> > 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 Sun May 09 2004 - 22:10:03 CDT

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