Re: Is 10g ready for primetime?

GeoPappas wrote:

> I understand that 10g has been out for about a year or so. But from my
> experience you don't want to upgrade to a new version immediately. You
> want to wait a while for all of the "kinks" to be worked out (by other
> people who like to be on the "bleeding edge"). I was wondering if we
> have reached that point with 10g.
>
> I was also wondering how some of the newer features were working (such
> as RAC, AWS, and Data Guard) at this point.
>
> As the subject asks: I was wondering if Oracle 10g (enterprise edition)
> is ready for primetime? Specifically, I am looking for feedback on
> performance, HA (high-availability), and DR (disaster recovery).
>
> Are people using it for 24x7, mission-critical applications?
>
> Have all of the quirks been worked out?
>
> How about some of the newer features, such as:
>
> The lastest update of RAC?
>
> AWS (Automatic Storage Management)? I have heard that it is slow.
>
> Data Guard?

Stable as a rock. In fact I found fewer problems with the second 10g Beta than with the 9.2.0.4 production release at the point-in-time when the Beta was released.

Oracle has just released the second patch, 10.1.0.4, which addresses the few remaining issues: Many of them with RAC on Linux.

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Daniel A. Morgan
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