Re: ** latest stable oracle 10G client
- From: Nuno Souto <dbvision@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sun, 08 Feb 2009 15:01:04 +1100
Dan Norris wrote,on my timestamp of 8/02/2009 11:31 AM:
ask was why you'd avoid 11g R1 (it has been available for 18 months
now); your reply looked like you thought I meant 10g R2. In the past
How long a major release of Oracle has been out means absolutely
nothing in what regards stability and is no argument to support it.
Witness how many patch releases 11g has had in those 18 months: 7,
and counting.
well. I'm not sure what Oracle can offer for 11g production customer
numbers or percentages. I'd guess just based on my unscientific,
heresay-based discussions that there probably about 25% 9.2, 60% 10g R2,
and 10% 11g (the rest are probably older or 10g R1). I have no sources
for my guesstimates, just my guess. I'd love to hear everyone else's
guesses!
At one of the last Oracle functions here, 3% were on 11g production,
30% on 10gr2 and the rest spread between 9 to 7, various sub-releases.
Of course, installing 11g does not mean one runs production on it.
The simple fact that neither Hyperion, nor Peoplesoft or JDE support
11g yet says a lot: they are all Oracle sub-products. SAP, same.
And just about most of the third party applications out there.
That says a lot about the level of confidence 11g inspires.
I think that most of the 11g issues that are likely to impact most
customers have been found and patched by now. I also expect that 11g R2
will introduce some big new features. New features also usually bring
along their share of issues too--that's the cost of innovation as I see it.
Bingo. And for as long as that continues, you'll see a lot
of the distribution I mentioned above, where the latest version
gets less than 5% use because everyone knows the blessed things
are as buggy as they can get and Oracle doesn't give a hoot
about releasing a stable version.
Heck: you need 10.2.0.3 to get stable support for ASSM which has
been out since 8i and even then you MUST still install a patch,
and you want folks to merrily upgrade to 11g?
Yeah, right: like, it's gonna happen...
If I were deploying a system today, I'd absolutely use 11g R1. But I
suspect that's just me...not everyone would agree.
I think so...
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Cheers
Nuno Souto
in sunny Sydney, Australia
dbvision@xxxxxxxxxxxx
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