Oracle Portal--good, bad or merely ugly?

Has anyone here deployed Oracle Portal for intranet use, or at least kicked it around in some depth? We are considering it for a potential intranet platform that would be geared around basic content management---designated individuals throughout the company would be responsible effectively for posting and managing content with [hopefully] minimal IT intervention. Other primary requirements are stability and enough flexibility to evolve the intranet with much richer and more dynamic content. Stability aside, Portal seems like a top-notch platform and Instant Portal in iAS SE1 (10.1.2.0.1) is pretty darn slick. (10.1.2.0.2 just showed up, no idea what's in it.)

Any stories from the field about Portal deployments (version 9.0.4 on up) that were either sweet or sour?

Bob

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