RE: High Availability -- True 7x24x365

Which reminds me of the DBA I talked to during the RMOUG training days
in February.

He told me they would upgrade from 7.3.4 to 8.1.7.4 somewhere in March
this year. They always upgrade to the latest version of a major release
after Oracle desupported it. The code will be stable by then, nobody
fiddling around with it, almost every issue is known and resolved or a
workaround is available.

Man, these guys got a life! No nighly patches, weekend upgrades,
whatever. When the final desupport date of 9.2.0.x is revealed, they
have to wake up and prepare for the next upgrade. 

I know of other sites who do the same, but based on ignorant
cost-cutting in stead of wisdom. 


Best regards,

Carel-Jan Engel

===
If you think education is expensive, try ignorance. (Derek Bok)
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On Thu, 2005-07-07 at 21:20, Kevin Closson wrote:

> >>>
> >>>I personally have a tough time swallowing this bitter pill 
> >>>(after just asking our DBAs to get us to 10.1.0.4 and 
> >>>prepare for RAC!) but maybe sometimes we ourselves are 
> >>>responsible for the threat of downtime.
> 
> This post hit the nail on the head. The term
> "early adoptor" means just that. Anyone have any
> nagging outstanding bugs with 8.1.7?  Didn't 
> think so.
> 
> I think there is a big difference between new
> features you (the customer) wants and features
> that Oracle wants you to have. They don't always
> intersect and over the last couple of years,
> usually don't intersect.
> 
> 
> Kevin Closson
> Chief Architect, Database Solutions
> PolyServe
> 
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