Oracle-L: RE: iAS 903 902 install

From: Brian Dunbar <Brian.Dunbar_at_Plexus.com>
Date: Fri, 17 Jan 2003 09:20:25 -0800
Message-ID: <F001.00533152.20030117092025@fatcity.com>

Sympathies are in order. Prior to September, 2002 I'd never touched the pesky thing. $WORK send me to the 9iAS (R2) course, after which of course it was decided we'd stick with R1 until the Fat Lady sings. I'm still groping, trying to figure out why the consultants and developers set things up the way they did.

Things I've learned the hard way

-Metalink < http://metalink.oracle.com/> is your friend. It can be like
trying to sip from a firehose at times, however.

-Oracle 'likes' fully qualified domain names, and doesn't seem to be aware
of this mysterious thing called 'DNS'.

You will never, ever be able to make any changes in an installed 9iAS server without bringing the house of cards down. Don't even think of trying to move directories and symlink to them.

-Oracle, as a company, doesn't like system administrators. Why else make
such a wanked product that defies Best Practices for admin and is so entrenched you can't eradicate it with dynamite?

-Everything is, or will be, a database, even stuff that isn't or shouldn't
ever be. See above.

Brian

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Sent: Friday, January 17, 2003 9:40 AM
To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L

List:
I'm touching iAS for the first time ever. I don't understand even basic stuff about it.

The install I have includes 9.0.2 and 9.0.3. The install says "9.0.3 is the first J2EE 1.3 compatible release of Oracle9iAS. ..blah blah.. Oracle9iAS 9.0.3 contains only the J2EE and Web Cache Installation Type of Oracle9iAS and is compatible with Oracle9iAS 9.0.2 infrastructures for clustering, management, and security."

Do I need to install 9.0.2 and then install 9.0.3 on top of it to get everyting I need?

We're currently in an evaluation phase. Developers want iAS to deploy forms, portal, and build apps with java.

I have 9.0.3 installed, but don't really understand what I have, and we're not able to launch a form.

Thanks for any help!
(This is the most frustrating, confusing product I've ever seen!!!!)
Barb

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