Re: Oracle8 and Oracle Applications

My understanding was that until about now Oracle planned to maintain Oracle 7 as the primary release, suggesting that customers should choose Oracle 8 IF they needed the new features. This has allowed Oracle to produce 7.3.4 as the terminal release for Oracle 7.

Many customers have such large complex environments that just migrating to Oracle 8 is no simple exercise, due to the amount of regression tests they would want to perform on there applications. Also many customer have applications that are running fine under Oracle 7 so they will be moving to 7.3.4.

Oracle will be releasing 8.0.4 in December and from that point forward Oracle 8 will be the release they will be pushing. It includes a number of enhancements discovered during benchmarking, plus extra features like the TimeSeries or Virage cartridges and new MML for RMAN.

In regards to which version to pick ? consider the follow :

• Are your applications certified against Oracle 8 - if not then pick 7 else pick 8
• Are you developing applications - if yes then pick Oracle 8
• Do these applications needs any of the new features especially objects - if yes pick 8
• Is you current application growing past the point where Oracle 7 can manage
  • if it is heading into the 10,000+ user range
  • or if you warehouse really needs partitions for manageability
  • etc
  • then Oracle 8 is where to go

Many companies I have spoken to are planning a move to Oracle 8 in the new year. The majority of them are developing NEW applications or putting in new 3rd party apps rather then upgrading live Oracle 7 apps, maybe this is a better guide.

Regards
David Russell Received on Tue Dec 02 1997 - 00:00:00 CET