Path: dp-news.maxwell.syr.edu!spool.maxwell.syr.edu!news-spur1.maxwell.syr.edu!news.maxwell.syr.edu!news.tele.dk!news.tele.dk!small.news.tele.dk!newsgate.cistron.nl!news.wiretrip.org!border2.nntp.ams.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!sn-ams-06!sn-xt-ams-05!sn-post-ams-01!sn-post-01!supernews.com!corp.supernews.com!not-for-mail From: DA Morgan Newsgroups: comp.databases.oracle.server Subject: Re: Different OS versions between Test and Prod Date: Tue, 04 Apr 2006 12:07:14 -0700 Organization: Ye 'Ol Disorganized NNTPCache groupie Message-ID: <1144177633.580918@yasure.drizzle.com> User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5 (Windows/20051201) MIME-Version: 1.0 References: <1143669554.197833.80550@j33g2000cwa.googlegroups.com> <1143670078.471716.280200@g10g2000cwb.googlegroups.com> <1143753156.788068.187110@j33g2000cwa.googlegroups.com> <1143758274.875941.225720@j33g2000cwa.googlegroups.com> <1143759109.103575.129050@i39g2000cwa.googlegroups.com> <1143825073.91644@yasure.drizzle.com> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cache-Post-Path: yasure.drizzle.com!unknown@oracle.advtechserv.com X-Cache: nntpcache 3.0.1 (see http://www.nntpcache.org/) X-Complaints-To: abuse@supernews.com Lines: 36 Xref: dp-news.maxwell.syr.edu comp.databases.oracle.server:264831 Bob Jones wrote: > "DA Morgan" wrote in message > news:1143825073.91644@yasure.drizzle.com... >> Dave wrote: >>> I agree that risk is minimal but I guess i'm wondering if I should put >>> myself in a situation where they are out of sync if I don't need to. I >>> fully agree that we should upgrade to Solaris 10 but I would rather >>> have a plan in place to upgrade all our environments instead of having >>> descrepancies. >>> >>> Just knowing how long it takes to get things done in our environment, >>> if there is no plan now, then it isn't on the radar for the forseeable >>> future. I'd have no issues with them being out of sync for 6 months >>> but no more than that. >>> >>> Backup and recovery isn't an issue, we have a good plan for that. I >>> don't think there are any dependancies based on OS version. >> You MUST upgrade DEV before TEST. You MUST upgrade TEST before PROD. >> So why the resistance to being out of synch? Just make sure that you >> have a well thought out, well documented, upgrade plan that moves the >> code through all three stages. >> -- > > Hmmmmm, that seems to be conflicting with what you said in the other > subthread. Not at all. Lets say production is in Solaris 8 and a new app is developed and tested in 10. Would you take the app and move it into production? I would hope not. Not without moving production to 10 first. Which usually means making sure the existing app will work in 10 too. -- Daniel A. Morgan http://www.psoug.org damorgan@x.washington.edu (replace x with u to respond)