We have 8.1.7. on Solaris running for some weeks now! So it is available and
you can even download it.
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Tom Pall [SMTP:tom_at_cdproc.com]
> Sent: 23 October 2000 05:00
> To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L
> Subject: Oracle 8.1.7?
>
> Oracle 8.1.7 is currently only available for download from
> technet.oracle.com, to those unfortunate enough to
> have Sun instead of HP hardware.
>
> I've upgraded two databases to 8.1.7 so far, and despite its installing
> and starting up Apache, am impressed with it.
> There seem to be a lot of bugs fixed in 8.1.7 than are not listed in the
> release notes and read me. At least the bugs
> I reported against 8.1.6 all appear fixed so far. Even the
> v$session_longops view has fewer apparantly corrupt sys entries.
>
> So far the only problem I've encountered with 8.1.7 is that the
> intelligent agent discovers Apache as a service and lists it
> as such in services.ora. OEM 1.6 does not mind and is happy to discover
> 8.1.7 with the Apache service. OEM 2.1, however,
> can't handle the Apache service and errors when attempting to discover
> 8.1.7.
>
> I'd love to hear of anybody else's experiences with 8.1.7, as I'm planning
> to upgrade yet another reporting database to it next
Received on Mon Oct 23 2000 - 03:57:45 CDT
