6.1a to 6.5 - upgrade or complete uninstall and then install

We currently use 6.1a webi/NT/ORACLE and I want to move to 6.5 which we have recently received, I would like to upgrade rather than uninstall/reinstall - does anyone have experience of this ? Would I be better upgrading to 6.1b or 6.1.3 first then to 6.5 ? Also can the 6.1a-6.1b(or 6.1.3) be performed as an upgrade or again is it unistall/reinstall. I have asked bo and had conflicting messages with most thinking that unistall/reinstall is the best way but I would prefer an upgrade solution.

Thanks
rjcft001


rjcft001 (BOB member since 2004-02-26)

I would recommend that you un-install as you will probably need to change your webserver and app server (at least we did as the apache/tomcat versions for pre-6.5 are not supported for 6.5). Also the uninstall is very simple and I am not suggesting a complete clean-up of the machine (ie cleaning the registry) but using the native un-install in BO.

I don’t see the benefit.

Check out the PDFs as they are excellent - deployment_upgrading.pdf and deployment_installation_configuration_windows.pdf


csievert :denmark: (BOB member since 2002-06-17)