Hi David,
I take the point that it's possible to make a case to *not* upgrade a
stable, working application.
Many of the Ingres enhancements (and there are some nice ones:
http://community.ingres.com/wiki/Ing...es_Per_Release)
have to be coded-in or 'taken advantage of' in some way.
If the App has been ticking along nicely for years, there is not much
incentive to make such changes.

I think a killer reason to upgrade is the license fees you mentioned,
Ingres 2.6 is on Extended Support (i.e. out-of-date support)
which *is* more expensive than Standard Supp, how many CPU's are you
paying for?

I agree that the move from 2.6 to 9.x is pain-free,
the only glitches we had were a couple of queries that fell through
the cracks of the optimizer enhancements; run-times increased by x10.

So I guess that the main operational reason for you to upgrade is that
you'll be _ready_;
Ready for an upgrade to new HW, ready for a new JDBC interface that
expects a DAS Server,
Ready to use some new feature that your not expecting to need right
now.

HTH
Steve


On Sep 29, 10:16*pm, David Brooks <dbro... (AT) visionsystemssoftware (DOT) com>
wrote: