Re: continuation...

"Galen Boyer" <galen_boyer_at_yahoo.com> wrote in message news:uir8jle3l.fsf_at_rcn.com...
> On Mon, 16 Jul 2007, damorgan_at_psoug.org wrote:
>
>> In your country perhaps. Here at least 60% of my customers
>> are either in 10g or will be by year's end. Only a very
>> small percentage are in 8.1.7.4 or below.
>
> I don't profess to have access to or consult to a large number of
> clients, as you do, but the clients I do consult for are large financial
> clients here in Boston and none of them are making any fast moves to
> 10G. A database upgrade is a massive undertaking that mandates that the
> clients of the database have internally architected a solid, tested and
> trustable regression test cycle, and this has nothing to do with how
> well the database vendor's product is architected. And nobody, that I
> have ever consulted for, ever got that correct. So, instead, they all do
> it slowly and methodically.
>

Not to mention mission-critical systems that require near 100% uptime. Received on Mon Jul 16 2007 - 23:18:09 CDT