"Richard A Foote" <richard.foote@tbigpond.nospam.com> wrote in message
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> "Louis Cohen" <louiscohen@alum.mit.edu> wrote in message
> news:f650e66c.0404291118.58f27f77@posting.google.c om...
> > Has anyone started using 10g in production on unix, especially HP-UX?
> > Or at least done a significant evaluation.
> >
> > I'm very interested in what you think of it in terms of
> > production-readiness - is it ready or should users wait for the next
> > release.
> >
>
> Hi Louis,
>
> We're at the very early stages of evaluation although there are a number
of
> new advancements with regard to Oracle Text that has various developers
> excited.
>
> However, Oracle doesn't exactly have a perfect record with it's first
> versions of major releases (think Oracle7, think Oracle8, think Oracle8i,
> think Oracle9i ...) and it would be a brave soul who would jump in too
> quickly with the first release of 10g ...
>
> Cheers
>
> Richard
>
>

Just got back from the 10g New Features for Administrators Course at
OracleUK.

Overall pretty impressed. Would avoid ASM for a while though ! Still not
entirely sure where
the real benefits come from for large shops using storage arrays such as EMC
etc - better the
devil you know when it comes to the storage of data !

Got no prod databases up yet - test only.