Re: Financials Client question

These guys must need some technical instructions. We have been using the jinitiator in our environment for the last 4 years. Hardware has not been an issue (other than the speed of the applet). Hardware ranges from P-II 90 (would you believe we still have these around!) to P-IV, AMD Durans, etc.

Ron Thomas
Hypercom, Inc
rthomas_at_hypercom.com
"The problem with some people is that when they aren't drunk, they're sober." --William Butler
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                      mtdelavega_at_pse.or                                                                                                   
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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!

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Maria Aurora VT de la Vega OCP
Database Specialist
Philippine Stock Exchange, Inc.


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