Re: Which Version of Oracle RDBMS to use for a new system?

From: Michael Gast <mig-sm_at_web.de>
Date: Tue, 18 May 2004 09:51:51 +0200
Message-ID: <40a9c0d1$0$260$4d4ebb8e@read.news.de.uu.net>

Hi Hans,

Hans Forbrich schrieb:
> Michael Gast wrote:
>

>> With my
>> experience in former projects i know that deeply understanding the
>> architecture and using the special features of the RDBMS speeds up the
>> implementation process and results in 'better' - that means faster, more
>> reliable, more secure, etc. - systems.

>
> I find this are the 'marketing' measures, useful to any sales person. The
> best measure tends to be translation of the above to the cost (and cost
> savings) for a specific customer or industry. (Let's face it - faster can
> be acomplished by a faster CPU or more memory, etc. and more secure might
> be simply patching.)
>

>> 
>> Up to now, there is no decision in regard to the Oracle version made in
>> this project.
>> 
>> The only point i wanted to ask for is: Does we take high risks when we
>> decide to implement for Oracle 10g? Are there any known issues with e.g.
>> reliability, speed etc?

>
> Since you have scanned the 10g new features document and not found anything
> exciting to help your project, IMO, develop towards the 9i capabilities and
> you probably will be able to use 10g without change.
>
> Since 10g Standard Edition supports RAC at no additional cost, if you do not
> need High Availability solutions or access to the (very useful) options
> such as Partitioning, Analytics or Spatial, design specifically toward
> Standard Edition and save your customers money. (They can always switch to
> Enterprise as it's the same code base!)

Thanks a lot for this hint. I did not know that RAC now is included with Standard Edition of 10g. I've an older document from Oracle which compares the different editions and there RAC was not bundled with Standard Edition. Actually i'm checking out, if the features bundled with the Standard Edition fulfill the systems requirements.

>
> However, realize that going to 10g should not be a high risk. At this time
> I have not seen any issues with performance and the security seems to have
> been strengthened again. Any reliability issues (and there seem to be very
> few) that may be associated with a 'dot one' release should be resolved by
> the time you are ready to go to market.
>
> /Hans
>
>

That's exactly what i wanted to hear: Your individual opinion. In addition, your opinion reflects my own experience with the Oracle RDBMS in my former projects. Thanks again, Hans.

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