Re: Financials Client question

Maria,

The "Jinitiator" is an applet required by Oracle Developer's Forms Server, mainly for authentication purposes. As an applet, it is extremely sensitive to the version of the browser and Windows, but not so much the hardware.

However, for someone to assert that the applet is sensitive to the version of the hardware seems suspect. Despite the "proven experience" claimed by these folks, I would suggest that they have less-than-perfect powers of observation, reasoning, and deduction. Confusing the importance of hardware components as opposed to software components should not build confidence. They are apparently equating "Pentium 3"s with one version of Windows and browser and "Pentium 4"s with another version of Windows and browser, when in fact there is a good deal of overlap that is possible. It would have been more helpful if they had taken the time to examine the software versions rather than the hardware, as the software versions surely matter more.

...they would not happen to be PC resellers, would they? It would explain both their orientation as well as their motivation... :-)

You can find a great deal of more relevant information on MetaLink. From the front-page of MetaLink, click on the left-hand navigation button for "Product Lifecycle" and on that page, click the button for "Certification". Then, choose from the drop-down lists to find "E-Business Suite" and "Jinitiator", and finally choose the version of Windows you are using on the client to find the certified, supported versions of the software. The navigation in this section of MetaLink is pretty confusing, but the supported configurations and versions of Jinitiator can be found here...

Please note that the type of CPU hardware is never prompted for; it is simply not a criteria.

At the very least, these "experts" (to which your company is outsourcing a critical business function) are sufficiently vague about important technical details that you are quite correct to hesitate before believing any statements they make without some form of corroboration.

Hope this helps...

-Tim

• Original Message ----- To: "Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L" <ORACLE-L_at_fatcity.com> Sent: Monday, May 27, 2002 2:18 AM

> We have outsourced implementation and setup of a scaled down Oracle
> Applications 11i (rel 11.5.5) for Suse Linux...
> I have received a memo from the implementation team's application DBAs
> and they
> have informed me of a certain limitation for the specs of the client
> PC's.
> I was informed that the clients must either be Pentium 3s and below or
> all Pentium 4s.
> Mixed network of Pentium 3 and 4s will not work. I was told it was
> because of the JInitiator being invoked from the server.
>
> to quote:
> "Let us further clarify that, through our proven installation/setup
> experience, the Shooman Application works on a network environment of
> "mixed" Pentium 3s and earlier computers. As of this writing, we have
> yet
> to prove that Shooman works properly in a network of Pentium 3 (or
> older)
> workstations mixed with Pentium 4s. However, we have proven that the
> application works if ALL workstations are Pentium 4s. It therefore
> follows
> that, should you purchase the latest Pentium 4 computers, you must issue
>
> ALL your Shooman users with this model in order for the system to work
> properly." (Shooman refers to the Oracle Application residing on a
> server named Shooman)
>
> I am completely ignorant of Oracle Applications as I have 0 experience
> in managing it.
> I'd really appreciate your opinion if we are being fooled or not.
> I am very concerned about this because as we all know PCs become
> obsolete in months...
> time will come we will have to change PCs...maybe move on to Pentium
> 5/6...
> This can pose a problem for us.
>
> Thanks a lot!
> --
> Maria Aurora VT de la Vega OCP
> Database Specialist
> Philippine Stock Exchange, Inc.
>
>
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