Re: 10g or 11g ?

"Jeremy" <jeremy0505_at_gmail.com> wrote in message news:MPG.21411b2831da8da798a49d_at_news.individual.net...
> Planning to migrate our systems to a new data center env in next couple
> of months. Currently on 9iR2 - thought was to go to 10g but should we go
> straight to 11g instead? General approach is to be one release behind
> the latest so that we know the platform is solid as a rock.
>
> Be interested to hear opinions on this.
>
> --

Hi Jeremy

In the next couple of months, you may still be waiting for 11g depending on your platform.

I've been playing with Oracle since the Oracle 7 days (yep, I'm only a relative newbie in this game) and if the first release of Oracle 8, 8i, 9i and 10g are anything to go by, I would be hesitate to jump into the first version of any major release.

In practicality, by the time one actually spends the time to learn the new features and subtleties of the new product and by the time one tests existing applications on the new release to discover the obvious bugs, you may as well wait the remaining time until Release 2 anyways.

Another danger of jumping in too early is that it usually takes Oracle Support until release 2 to become comfortable support the thing themselves.

Interestingly, I believe Oracle Corp are beginning to clue up to this usual "waiting until Release Stable" strategy and I wouldn't be surprised if 11g Release 2 appears earlier than usual.

 Just my humble little opinion ...

Cheers

Richard Received on Fri Aug 31 2007 - 08:44:26 CDT