Re: 10G on AIX 5.1 - Is it ready for 'prime time'?? - How should we get ready?

peter_at_peternolan.com wrote:

> Hi All,
> we are just about to start a sizable project (1-2TB (disk) EDW with
> 200+ users) and the client is AIX 5.1 Oracle 9.2.
>
> The mostly likely timeframe for 'production' is somewhere around the
> middle of next year I would think....maybe a bit sooner but certainly
> not before April.
>
> The questions have come up:
> 1. Should we start the design work with 10G (AIX) in mind?
> 2. Should we be planning to use 10G features on day 1? (That is be 100%
> committed to 10G from day 1?)
> 3. Is 10G ready for such 'prime time'? (Of course it's no use asking
> Oracle that question...)
>
> Are other folks out there finding 10G does what it is supposed to do
> with a similar level of reliability to 9.2?
>
> Much appreciate any thoughts, advice and guidance on this....
>
> (I am told there is 'lots and lots' of great stuff in 10G that is not
> in 9.2....but I worry whether Oracle has ironed out all the
> bugs....call me crazy...;-) )
>
> Best Regards
> Peter Nolan

Opinion ...

I'm personally convinced that 10g is prime-time based on what I've seen of the features and have used myself. I would certainly look to using Oracle Database 10g for this project, for the following reasons:

1. Anything that was introduced in 9iR2 or earlier seems rock solid in 10g;
2. Seems like 10gR2 is on it's way already, if I read the announcements from Open World right;
3. By the time you go into production, the release will have over 1 year of 'maturity', so you are just fighting a few new features, which will likely have been debugged by then (if they are not already);
4. You can review the actual 'new' feature set in the New Features document and determine whether they make any sense for the project requirements.

That said, I know no one who has moved to 10g on AIX yet, as this area is either Windows/Solaris/Linux on 9i/10g or very cautious orgs using AIX and slowly moving up from 8i. So for the AIX side, I concur with Daniel - check Metalink.

HTH/Hans Received on Thu Dec 09 2004 - 22:00:12 CST