Are Oracle customers eager to upgrade to Oracle Database 11g?
Noel Yuhanna: I think there has been some adoption, and I think that has to do with the many good, new features in 11g. But I think it’s still too early to [predict the levels] of adoption we’ll see. Normally, enterprises start upgrading about a year after a major release, and it hasn’t been a year yet. I think [Database 11g Release 2] will be the most important [in that when it comes out] enterprises will start to look at upgrading their databases to 11g. Aside from a fear of downtime, what are some of the chief reasons why companies are slow to upgrade database systems these days? Yuhanna: The problem I think right now is that database technologies are mature, and you may have another 10,000 features coming out, but the question is: Do you really need those 10,000 new features? Sometimes you don’t, right? So, normally, the basic features are good enough for most applications. It’s just that there could be some advanced applications or complex applications that may need some of the ne
