(Purpose of the parallel load is to keep the one used by the system more-or-less pristine, of course. Purpose of 5.8 is Unicode and large character sets.)
If your making much us of Unicode, you should absolutely run the latest 5.8.x.
Regards,
David
(Purpose of the parallel load is to keep the one used by the system more-or-less pristine, of course. Purpose of 5.8 is Unicode and large character sets.)