RE: how goes 10.1.0.4 testing?

Niall,

What Mladen said.

Also, and this is my opinion from experience only, Oracle tends to release new features that are not yet fully realized in actual working code. All you need to do is to take a look at how quickly patch set #1 comes out after release #1 comes out. Sometimes, the patches that are available are for things that were fixed in the prior release of the software (like 9.2.0.4 something works, and it's broken in 10.1, so a patch comes out to catch 10.1 up to 9.2.0.4). Please don't ask me for specific examples of this.

And the new features that are release may have passed beta testing. But once they start getting hit by the rest of the world, the stuff really hits the fan.

Of course, waiting for release 2 puts us in the position of installing (probably) the final release of the software just before version 11.x comes out. But I'd rather be a release behind running stable software than spending my client's time patching buggy software.

Tom

-----Original Message-----
From: Niall Litchfield [mailto:niall.litchfield_at_gmail.com] Sent: Tuesday, March 29, 2005 2:48 AM
To: thomas.mercadante_at_labor.state.ny.us
Cc: bdbafh_at_gmail.com; Oracle Discussion List Subject: Re: how goes 10.1.0.4 testing?

On Fri, 25 Mar 2005 15:24:24 -0500, Mercadante, Thomas F <thomas.mercadante_at_labor.state.ny.us> wrote:
> I'm waiting for 10.2. There is no way I would recommend 10.1 to my
current
> employer.

I'm curious, what makes you think 10.2 will be better from a software quality and patching perspective? (as opposed to feature list).

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