Re: Linux Flavour for Oracle 9i

> There comes a point where "mature" is merely a synonym for "obsolete"
> (and I speak as someone past 40, so I know what I'm on about!).
>
> I quite liked 2.1, but it's scarily out of date, and I would go 3 every
> time (bearing in mind that 4 is just around the corner). You say
> elsewhere that the installation onto 3 is a pain in the bottom... true,
> but only for 9i (which I realise is in the thread subject, so is
> probably quite important...). With 10g, it merely involves inserting CD
> and praying just gently to the Heavens. No major dramas at all.
>
> So, yeah.... mature is as geriatrics does.
>

OK - sounds good to me.... v3 it is.

9i is our current version, and 10g is not certified with our ERP software (Peoplesoft...!). So it will be 9i for at least the near future.

But I will probably upgrade my RMAN catalog and OEM architecture to 10g which apparantly has a load more 'attractive' features. Until now I've always resorted to command line admin but since things are getting more and more complicated and init.ora parms have multitudes of combinations (e.g. LOG_ARCHIVE_DEST_N) OEM is becoming a real option.

My challenge now is to convince management to ditch all of our Windows based databases in favour of the Penguin...!

Should be fun...

Cheers

Matt Received on Mon Nov 15 2004 - 07:58:09 CST