RE: Oracle iFS

From: Lex de Haan <lex.de.haan_at_naturaljoin.nl>
Date: Wed, 31 Mar 2004 21:07:12 +0200
Message-ID: <JFEEIGBIDOCCDALDIPLNCENNCBAA.lex.de.haan@naturaljoin.nl>

well, I very recently left Oracle, and we used iFS extensively ourselves. initialIy I always have a critical mind set when "forced" to use some new tool or technology,
but I was pleasantly surprised by iFS. it certainly does very well what it is supposed to do,
including version management, and check in/check out functionality. last but not least, since the content is stored in an Oracle database, you get "standard" Oracle database backup/recoverability functionality "for free".

wow, this sounds like marketing ...
hope Pete is pleased?

Lex.
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[mailto:oracle-l-bounce_at_freelists.org]On Behalf Of Jared.Still_at_radisys.com   Sent: Wednesday, March 31, 2004 20:12
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  Subject: Oracle iFS

Dear list,

Just asking for experiences using iFS, now called "Oracle Content Management SDK".

I'm casting about for ideas to manage IT documents. The three things that I see as
being necessary are these:

Ability to easily organize a structure that can be easily drilled down into. ie. much like a directory structure
Full text indexing
Versioning - date and time of last edit, who edited the doc, and what changed.

Microsoft Indexing service is a no-brainer for 1 and 2, but I don't believe it does #3.

iFS seems a likely candidate, though I'm not sure how well it does #3.

Then there are commercial document management systems. Way too expensive and complex.

There are alternatives such as KnowledgeTree (open source) but probably just
as much work to setup as Oracle iFS.

Any good experiences out there with iFS for this type of usage?

TIA Jared

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