9i for sure...
Lets face it - in 2 months time, a nice little alert
will pop out on Metalink telling us how "support on
8.1.7.2 is on the way out, and all customers are
requested to upgade to 9" as they do with all the
"old" releases...
Connor
--- Christopher Spence <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I am starting a new company, I am going to be
> building a platform which will
> use Oracle database as it's infrastructure. It will
> be a very large
> application and environment If all goes well. It
> will take about a year
> from start to finish till I will attempt to be live.
> I am debating about
> using 9i or sticking with 8.1.7. Since it will be
> in development, I am
> comfortable within a year 9i should just be about
> stable, and would be nice
> to already be on it's features, specially it's OPS
> features. And not have
> to worry about the big move over (and probably
> costly) in the future.
> During development it would be easy to have 8.1.7
> and 9i side by side just
> in case something crops ups and hinders our path.
>
> Anyone have anything bad to say about that idea?
> Let them rip, and be
> honest.
>
> "Do not criticize someone until you walked a mile in
> their shoes, that way
> when you criticize them, you are a mile a way and
> have their shoes."
>
> Christopher R. Spence
> Oracle DBA
> Phone: (978) 322-5744
> Fax: (707) 885-2275
>
> Fuelspot
> 73 Princeton Street
> North, Chelmsford 01863
>
>
>
>
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