Re: ORA 8 or 7.3

Also, remember that Oracle is shelving plans for Sedona - the much publicise development environment for Oracle 8.0. One wonder what tools Oracle developers would use for developing with Oracle 8.0.

Raman Batra, Oracle DBA

David Kaiser wrote:
>
> I would not touch Oracle 8 with a 10 foot pole. Every Oracle release I
> have installed has had show stopping bugs in it. Regardless of their long
> beta test (and ever changing feature list), I have no intentions on using
> Oracle 8 for at least a year.
>
> Dave
>
> Jim Olsen <jolsen_at_mindspring.com> wrote in article
> <33a7ed22.4188769_at_news.mindspring.com>...
> > Oracle 8 has significant changes from 7.3. It has been beta testing
> > for 3/4 year and is extremely stable. You should base your decision
> > on the application/database you are building. If you building a VLDB
> > or a datawarehouse, O8 is definately the way to go.
> >
> > satarnag_at_aol.com (SatarNag) wrote:
> >
> > >Nabil Courdy <moab_at_emirates.net.ae> wrote in article
> > ><01bc7933$9a2c0380$697eaac2_at_msdusr>...
> > >> We are starting a brand new project in Oracle.
> > >> This will be our firsr Oracle project. Should we
> > >> go with version 8 or 7.3?
> > >>
> > >> Nabil Courdy
> > >> moab_at_emirates.net.ae
> > >
> > >Rule of thumb, Never go with anything ".0", Stick with 7.3. There is
 only
> > >minor Differences with the version 8.0 and 7.3 database.
> > >Satar
> >
> >
  Received on Wed Jun 18 1997 - 00:00:00 CDT