Considering 1 year of development, I am hoping it wouldn't be bleeding edge
at release.
"Do not criticize someone until you walked a mile in their shoes, that way
when you criticize them, you are a mile a way and have their shoes."
Christopher R. Spence
Oracle DBA
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given this, I'd definitely develop in 9i, since fallback to 8.1.7 would
require testing but not recoding.
good luck and let us know -- I hate living on the bleeding edge :)
>From: Christopher Spence <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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>To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Subject: RE: Would you use 9i?
>Date: Fri, 24 Aug 2001 07:59:06 -0800
>
>What I was planing on doing, is using as much flat 8.1.7 features, but
>take advantage of the 9i way of doing it.
>
>For example, 9i is faster in calls to sql from PLSQL, this will not
>effect my PLSQL code in one bit. The new OPS features, if I need to go
>to old OPS, won't need to change code.
>
>If there is something in 9i I find that I must use, then I will need to
>make
>a decision.
>
>"Do not criticize someone until you walked a mile in their shoes, that
>way when you criticize them, you are a mile a way and have their
>shoes."
>
>Christopher R. Spence
>Oracle DBA
>Phone: (978) 322-5744
>Fax: (707) 885-2275
>
>Fuelspot
>73 Princeton Street
>North, Chelmsford 01863
>
>
>
>
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>Sent: Thursday, August 23, 2001 5:01 PM
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>
>
>you say that you will have 8.1.7 and 9i up during development, so that
>you will be able to move back to 8.1.7 should something (a bug?) crop
>up. Okay, are you planning on using no features in 9i that are not in
>8.1.7? If so, great. If not, you would have to redevelop and rethink
>the direction to return to the 8.1.7 platform.
>
>next, you say that you are comfortable with the possible shakiness of
>9i given that your development cycle will be a year and you believe
>that it will be solid by then. But what if you have to code in
>work-arounds during that shakedown time? Are you planning on flagging
>those and going back and fixing the code once the problem has been
>resolved in 9i?
>
>I would be happier to do this sort of development cycle within a major
>release. I.e., develop on 9.1 and fall back to a stable 9.0.1 rather
>than cross such major boundaries. Unless I was not taking advantage of
>new features.
>
>My $0.02
>
>Rachel
> >From: Christopher Spence <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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> >To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> >Subject: Would you use 9i?
> >Date: Thu, 23 Aug 2001 11:43:45 -0800
> >
> >I am starting a new company, I am going to be building a platform
> >which will use Oracle database as it's infrastructure. It will be a
> >very large application and environment If all goes well. It will
> >take about a year from start to finish till I will attempt to be
> >live. I am debating about using 9i or sticking with 8.1.7. Since it
> >will be in development, I am comfortable within a year 9i should just
> >be about stable, and would be
>nice
> >to already be on it's features, specially it's OPS features. And not
>have
> >to worry about the big move over (and probably costly) in the future.
> >During development it would be easy to have 8.1.7 and 9i side by side
>just
> >in case something crops ups and hinders our path.
> >
> >Anyone have anything bad to say about that idea? Let them rip, and
> >be honest.
> >
> >"Do not criticize someone until you walked a mile in their shoes,
> >that way when you criticize them, you are a mile a way and have their
> >shoes."
> >
> >Christopher R. Spence
> >Oracle DBA
> >Phone: (978) 322-5744
> >Fax: (707) 885-2275
> >
> >Fuelspot
> >73 Princeton Street
> >North, Chelmsford 01863
> >
> >
> >
>
>
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