Re: Different OS versions between Test and Prod

"Dave" <david.best_at_gmail.com> wrote in message news:1143669554.197833.80550_at_j33g2000cwa.googlegroups.com...
> Hey all,
>
> Question... our architect's are trying to push us to install Solaris
> 10 on our new dev/test boxes instead of 8, which is our production
> version. There are currently no plans to upgrade prod to Solaris 10.
> With the hardware we ordered there are no issues with installing
> Solaris 8. I've been resisting because I don't want to support an
> environment where the OSes are out of sync. While I agree that the
> risk is probably minimal I want a plan in place to upgrade prod before
> I signoff on test.
>
> Am I being anal? I've talked to other DBA's and they agree with me,
> but to make my problem a bit more difficult, a DBA in my group has
> already let this happen in one of their environments.
>
> tnx.
>

No, you are not being anal. You are just doing your job.

The same version of Oracle should behave the same on Solaris 8 or 10. Your existing apps should work fine, unless in an unlikely case there are Oracle bugs affecting only one version of Solaris. Received on Wed Mar 29 2006 - 17:51:32 CST