Re: Any reasons why not to upgrade to 9i

"Paul Brewer" <paul_at_paul.brewers.org.uk> wrote in message news:3f11c1fc_1_at_mk-nntp-1.news.uk.worldonline.com...
> "Herman Rollfs of Roelofs" <roelofs223_at_zonnet.nl> wrote in message
> news:kilPa.4446$w3.1333828_at_zonnet-reader-1...
> > Hi there,
> >
> > I am considering to upgrade my databases from 8.1.7.4 to 9i. It is easy
to
> > find reasons for doing so, Oracle provides plenty of documents, such as
> the
> > new features summaries for release 1 and 2. But it is hard to find
reasons
> > why I might not want to upgrade, Oracle certainly won't tell me
(easily).
> > Do you know of any reasons why I should not upgrade?
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Herman
> >
> None whatever, as long as you have completed the regression testing with
> your application.
> You did do that, didn't you? Or were you planning the production upgrade
> without testing?
> Please let us know. And if you did the regression testing, well done! How
> did you manage to persuade the business to pay for it? Up until now our
> warnings about desupport have had nil effect.
>
> Regards,
> Paul
>

We will go through the whole chain from development to production, for each of many databases. The business will not have much of a problem paying for the new version. But they won't like me spending a lot of time on trying to upgrade only to find out that we run in to problems and have to downgrade again. That is an important factor in deciding whether to upgrade. Furthermore, as a comment to other messages in the thread, the business won't pay for the upgrade just to keep *me* up to date with the latest Oracle release (they hired me from another company). Believe me, I want to upgrade, but I have to know if it's best for business. Concerning desupport, Oracle is quite willing to support final releases such as 7.3.4 and 8.1.7.4 and even some 8.0 release for quite some time, if you have the right contract. I must add that I have not concerned myself with the licenses, someone else is doing that. If you've got a very stabile application/database, then you may even get away with no support. And I will not be stuck with just administrating old databases, because new development will hardly have a problem going to 9i anyway. If I can get a good story for the business, that may be sooner, rather than later, hence my initial question.

So I'm actually quite happy that most of you say I should have no problems.

Thanks again,
Herman Received on Mon Jul 14 2003 - 16:29:13 CDT