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Re: Minutes 5 November 1999 Project Team Leaders Meeting
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Reid M. Pinchback)
Fri Nov 5 12:22:37 1999
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Date: Fri, 05 Nov 1999 12:25:05 -0500
To: Bill Cattey <wdc@mit.edu>, magellan@mit.edu, delivery@mit.edu,
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From: "Reid M. Pinchback" <reidmp@MIT.EDU>
At 05:13 PM 11/5/99 +0000, Bill Cattey wrote:
> Oracle -- Reid Pinchback
> We are now at a transition point where it is becoming more
> risky to stay with Oracle 7 than to migrate to Oracle 8.
> Today 7.3.4 is ok for projects starting today, but
> 6 months from now, Oracle 8 should be SERIOUSLY considered.
Just as a clarification for those who weren't at the meeting, it is
Oracle 8i, not 8, that will warrant consideration, for two reasons:
1. The 8i versions are starting to solidify (so production use 8i
will become increasingly feasible).
2. At some point, probably in the next year or so, I expect the 7.3
versions will be de-supported by Oracle. That will nudge us to
gradually migrate our services to newer database versions, and to
start using the newer versions when we launch new projects.
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