Return-Path: Received: from newsfeed.cts.com (newsfeed.cts.com [209.68.248.164]) by naude.co.za (8.11.2/8.11.2) with SMTP id g7JCl3r28054 for ; Mon, 19 Aug 2002 08:47:03 -0400 Received: from fatcity.UUCP (uucp@localhost) by newsfeed.cts.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with UUCP id FAA54409; Mon, 19 Aug 2002 05:43:16 -0700 (PDT) Received: by fatcity.com (26-Feb-2001/v1.0g-b71/bab) via UUCP id 004B8CA1; Mon, 19 Aug 2002 05:33:22 -0800 Message-ID: Date: Mon, 19 Aug 2002 05:33:22 -0800 To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L X-Comment: Oracle RDBMS Community Forum X-Sender: Andrey Bronfin Sender: root@fatcity.com Reply-To: ORACLE-L@fatcity.com Errors-To: ML-ERRORS@fatcity.com From: Andrey Bronfin Subject: Reasons to upgrade from Oracle 7.3.4 to 8i Organization: Fat City Network Services, San Diego, California X-ListServer: v1.0g, build 71; ListGuru (c) 1996-2001 Bruce A. Bergman Precedence: bulk Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="windows-1255" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Dear gurus ! I know it's a "beaten to death horse", but... I want to convince a customer to upgrade their OPS 7.3.4 DB to an Oracle 8.1.7 OPS or even (in a best case for me) to Oracle9i RAC (don't even know whether or not one exists and is supported for Digital UNIX on EMC Symmetrix storage). I am sure this has been discussed 1000s of times here , but ... i need the arguments to convince them. I can't tell them "upgrade because 8.1.7 delivers better performance , availability etc...and 7.3.4 is outdated" , they simply won't buy it. They run that OPS 7.3.4 DB for several years now and are quite happy with it. I need to explain in details why they should invest in the upgrade. Now , the only real reason i can think of is partitioning . They will definetly benefit from it. I need more reasons. Thanks a lot in advance. DBAndrey * 03-9254520 * 058-548133 * mailto:andreyb@elrontelesoft.com -- Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.com -- Author: Andrey Bronfin INET: andreyb@elrontelesoft.com Fat City Network Services -- (858) 538-5051 FAX: (858) 538-5051 San Diego, California -- Public Internet access / Mailing Lists -------------------------------------------------------------------- To REMOVE yourself from this mailing list, send an E-Mail message to: ListGuru@fatcity.com (note EXACT spelling of 'ListGuru') and in the message BODY, include a line containing: UNSUB ORACLE-L (or the name of mailing list you want to be removed from). You may also send the HELP command for other information (like subscribing).