Re: anyone use BEA WebLogic or IBM Websphere against an Oracle database?

>9iAS is a hodge-podge of Oracle
> and 3rd party stuff thrown together on a couple of CDs (and up to the
> customer to sort thru and make it all work together).

Amen to that ! Unfortunately Oracle forces you to use and install all that crap if you want
to evolve to Forms and reports 9i ...

"Karsten Farrell" <kfarrell_at_belgariad.com> wrote in message news:MPG.19873c2b78b2b5e09897f9_at_news.la.sbcglobal.net...
> Hi Ryan, thanks for writing this:
> > These two web servers dominate the market far more widespread than 9iAS.
> >
> > has anyone used them? How do they compare to each other and to 9iAS? Can
you
> > do web pl/sql with those web servers? What about run forms and reports?
> >
>
> We use BEA WebLogic. Much, much, much easier to setup than 9iAS!!! And
> way cheaper than 9iAS. BEA is organized; 9iAS is a hodge-podge of Oracle
> and 3rd party stuff thrown together on a couple of CDs (and up to the
> customer to sort thru and make it all work together).
>
> We only use Java (and its various flavors), so I don't know about plsql
> web pages (psp). One customer demanded that we provide an interface for
> reports ... so we had to install 9iAS ... but 9iAS has become shelfware
> since that customer left the fold. I don't miss 9iAS.
>
> YMMV.
> --
> [:%s/Karsten Farrell/Oracle DBA/g]
Received on Tue Jul 22 2003 - 16:38:27 CDT