Re: Student Looking for 9iR2 Personal Edition

makbo wrote:

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> Daniel Morgan wrote:
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>>> Daniel Morgan wrote:
>>> [...]
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>>>> In case you haven't noticed ... 9i is on the verge of being obsolete.
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> Sorry, I took some guesses at what you meant by "obsolete". Let me
> ask, then: can you elaborate on your phrase "the verge of being
> obsolete".
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> For example, I have heard that Advanced Replication, while fully
> supported, is considered dead from Oracle's viewpoint, in favor of
> streams-based replication (in 9i). So by my definition, this feature
> is on the verge of being obsolete.
>
> Having just upgraded my company's DB's to 9i earlier this year, is
> there a compelling reason (obsolescence or otherwise) why I'd want to
> try to sell management on an upgrade to 10g (or whatever it is that is
> making 9i on the verge...) in the next twelve months?
>
> Thanx, Mark Bole
>

Just that 10g has been officially announced, Beta copies look great, and I would expect it will be released very soon with pricing that will make it a very attractive option.

There is a compelling reason to put 10g into development and testing. There is no sane person that would put 10g into a line-of-business production environment until it is fully vetted and that can't take less than a year. Take a look at how long it was between Oracle's release of 9.0.1 and 9.0.2 to 9.2 when Oracle was willing to move their own internal apps off 8.1.7? Will this be diferent? Hopefully. But I believe in being on the cutting edge ... not the bleeding edge. Let someone else write the first TAR.

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