Migration from 8.1.7.4 to 9.2.0.3 on Solaris

Wanting to justify (to others-mostly manager/supervisors and developers) a migration this year of several Oracle 8.1.7 (and 8.1.6) databases to 9iR2
(9.2.0.3 or latest). I plan on doing more research (reading the manuals for
one), but there is a meeting tomorrow that I know this will come up in :) and I need something quickly.

Our client side is mostly W2K with 8.1.7 client installed.

Our DB servers are all Solaris 8 with lots of memory, cpu, and disks.

Also, as part of this upgrade I plan on moving to LMT and away from DMT
(actually already doing this for new apps in 8.1.7 and 8.1.6).

A couple of things come to mind for this justification, but I was wondering/hoping someone else could contribute to this: - 8.1.7 is being de-supported 12-31-2003 - I know we still get EAS and just lose ECS for 3 more years, but this one would probably goes well with Mangers.
- Lots of good things in 9i that I know as a DBA I like, some are noted in document on Metalink
http://metalink.oracle.com/metalink/plsql/ml2_documents.showDocument?p_datab ase_id=NOT&p_id=223724.1

But, for developers nothing stands out to me as very significant/appealing to justify the migration to 9.2.0.3 (other than space management being less work).

Tanks!

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