Oracle 10g is available for purchase
and download. Oracle 10g Release 2 is available for the following
platforms:
*
Linux(x86, ,x86-64, Itanium and Power)
* Solaris (SPARC 64, x86 and x86-64)
* HP-UX (Itanium and PA-RISC) and HP Tru64
* AIX5L
* OpenVMS (Itanium)
* z/Linux and z/OS (OS/390)
* Microsoft Windows (x86, x86-64 and Itanium)
Pro-DBA.com
endorses using Oracle 10g Release 2 in critical production
environments. This product has proven to be highly stable
and fast in many client implementations on various architectures.
Note that we also now consider Oracle 11g Release 1 to be
production-ready.
scalability
improved
In 10g, Oracle
has concentrated largely on speed, scalability and increasing
compatibility of recently added features.
Specifically, scalability
has been improved with data addressing up to 8 exabytes (8
million terabytes), making Oracle a viable option for even
the largest current data warehouse implementations. XML database
support has also been enhanced.
grid computing
features
Oracle are heavily
promoting 10g's Grid Computing features. Automated Storage
Management features are included, along with high-speed data
movement utilities.
faster installation,
simpler migration
Oracle claims 10g
is installable in 30 mins, and new upgrade features make migrations
from previous versions simpler. Online upgrade support has been
improved further in Oracle 11g, which is now available for download
and purchase.
For
more information on Oracle10g, please call or email us.
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