Re: OAS 9i anyone?

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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