Re: Is 10g ready for primetime?

"GeoPappas" <PappasG_at_gmail.com> wrote in message news:1112210013.537395.155460_at_l41g2000cwc.googlegroups.com...
> bdb:
>
> Thanks for the clarification and the link to AskTom.
>
> << By saying "kinks" and "quirks" you did not mean "bugs"? >>
>
> Not really. My definition of "kink" is basically anything that will
> prevent users from getting to your site and having a *pleasant*
> experience. This includes DR (disaster recovery), HA (high
> availability), and performance. Performance is included because your
> site might be up and running, but if you have 10,000 customers trying
> to get in and your system can only handle 3,000 customers, then you
> have a problem.
>
> I was referring to the product working well enough to be in a 24x7,
> mission-critical, "Production environment". What I mean by a
> "Production environment" is something along the lines of a bank, major
> website, etc, where there is a real problem if the site is down or not
> performing well. I know that people can call almost anything
> "Production", but putting someone's blog on the Internet and storing it
> in 10g is not "proof" to me.

asktom.oracle.com runs on 10g IIRC
major banks do use it in production. Oracle will sure give you reference sites if adoption is an issue.
RAC has been around for depending on how you count 2 or > 5 years.

> I have been in the IT business for quite a while (almost 20 years), and
> one thing I have learned is that you don't really want to use a dot 0
> release (as in 10.0). Many "new" features are there, but not ready for
> prime-time and it takes a while to work the "kinks" out.

fair comment, 10g has had two patch sets and been out for over a year now. How long do you wish to wait.

> But specifically, I was wondering how some of the newer features were
> working, like ASM (Automatic Storage Management) and RAC. Are these
> ready for primetime? I have heard of some companies using RAC for the
> DB server, but I have not heard many companies using AWS yet. I
> actually have heard that it is quite slow.

AWS?
> Any thoughts on ASM and RAC?

You have to use ASM if you want the SE free of charge RAC.

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