Re: ASP and Oracle

"The Brain \(Narf!\)" <nousername-nospam_at_mail.com> wrote in message news:<9hqjgs$fq51n$1_at_ID-61822.news.dfncis.de>...
> Dear all,
>
> I am planning to use ASP and Oracle for a portal website. The estimated
> number of simultaneous users is 100-150. Would this cause any problems (I
> can't tolerate any crash risk)? Which driver is better to use? OO4O or ODBC?
> The server is currently Windows 2000 Server (IIS 5), PIII single processor,
> 256 MB RAM, IDE HD; but I am ready to add a processor and up to 768 MB RAM.
> I can also separate the web server from the database server.

If you're certain that you'll never want to have a non-Oracle database on the back end, you'll probably be better served by using OO4O rather than OLE DB or ODBC. OO4O was designed by Oracle, so it's much easier to take advantage of Oracle's full feature set using this API. OLE DB and ODBC were designed by Microsoft as universal API's (that happen to favor SQL*Server). They tend to be slower & less efficient than OO4O, though you have the option of changing databases.

Justin Cave Received on Sat Jul 21 2001 - 16:25:39 CDT