Message-Id: <10487.104987@fatcity.com> From: "Joseph S. Testa" Date: Thu, 04 May 2000 12:36:50 -0400 Subject: Re: Oracle 8 vs Oracle 8i --------------8303D9F197441AF2F3B437B8 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit I guess the questions begs to be asked, why would you go with the older version? 8.1.5 is somewhat buggy, but from what i've seen so far(about 3 months worth) 8.1.6 is pretty stable at least on solaris. joe Andrey Bronfin wrote: > Dear ALL ! My company and me are about to decide to go either for > Oracle8 or Oracle8i .It's an absolutely new Internet application , so > no migration is needed - we are starting from scratch .I'm interested > in all the inputs , especially in terms of performance , stability & > easiness of maintenance , to compare the two versions .We are planning > for thousands of concurrent users & a very high queries/second rate , > although the queries promise to be pretty light selects .The O/S be > Sun UNIX (or may be HP-UX , we haven't decide about this either :-) > .Any input will be VERY appreciated .Thanks a lot in advance . Andrey > . --------------8303D9F197441AF2F3B437B8 Content-Type: text/html; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit I guess the questions begs to be asked, why would you go with the older version?

8.1.5 is somewhat buggy, but from what i've seen so far(about 3 months worth) 8.1.6 is pretty stable at least on solaris.

joe
 

Andrey Bronfin wrote:

Dear ALL ! My company and me are about to decide to go either for Oracle8 or Oracle8i .It's an absolutely new Internet application , so no migration is needed - we are starting from scratch .I'm interested in all the inputs , especially in terms of performance , stability & easiness of maintenance , to compare the two versions .We are planning for thousands of concurrent users & a very high queries/second rate  , although the queries promise to be pretty light selects .The O/S  be Sun UNIX  (or may be HP-UX  , we haven't decide about this either :-) .Any input will be VERY appreciated .Thanks a lot in advance . Andrey .