Gary Weber wrote:
Greetings,
We are contemplating a purchase of Oracle Application Server 9i.
Anyone using it?
We are. (TIMW).
Mind sharing your experience?
No
What prompted you to purchase an Application Server? Why was Oracle App
Server chosen, as opposed to Weblogic, etc?
9iAS is a marketing conglomeration consisting of
Apache
Orion (a freeware JSP, Java servlet Server)
Reports60
Forms60
Developer
WebCache
Portal
plus a few others
We got it primarily for Reports60 Forms60
J2EE considerations?
Ease of configuration/maintenance?
The Forms60 Reports60 were a MAJOR pain to configure on *nix (Solaris).
These two products appear to have been developed on Windoze and ported
to Unix. Both do funky stuff with filenames involving upper/lower case
issues. Windoze is case insensitive; while *nix is case sensitive;
which requires soft links between BASE.pll, base.pll, Base.pll!
Who's in charge of OAS (DBA, SysAdmin, Developer)?
In my case DBA, because I'm an ex-SysAdmin the only person
who had a fighting chance to make this POS s/w operational.
Stability? We've had numerous issues with Weblogic recently, hence the
question.
Apache is rock solid.
The Reports60 server dies and/or hangs frequently repeatedly.
Do you feel the ROI has justified the purchase?
Who knows? I'm just a geek techie.
How many developers are involved in writing apps and/or supporting your
installation?
Two developers, plus me.
Feel free to contact me off the list if you so desire.
HTH YMMV
HAND!
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