Re: Collaboration Suite

Actually I'm a bit surprised, that OCS works that well for you. My impression about Oracle products is that Oracle Server is the only Oracle server-type product which may work out-of-the-box. I've worked with iAS since v.2 and yes, E-Business suite as well. The worst experiences are with IFS (v.1.1) that crashed so hard we had to hack our data out of it and switch back to regular fileserver which I now know should be used for serving files anyway. That's why I didn't even take a look on OCS when it came out - I remember the InterOffice disaster too well..

But if several people say, especially here, that it works for you, I think it's time to check it out. Wonder if it'll run in test env with 512MB of RAM using Linux?

Tanel.
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To: "Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L" <ORACLE-L_at_fatcity.com> Sent: Thursday, August 21, 2003 9:24 PM

> Brian,
>
> We're using OCS Release 2 on Linux (RHAS2.1) internally (15 users). We
also
> did a production install of OCS Release 2 on Linux RHAS2.1 for a customer
in
> NJ (100 users). They are very happy and impressed with the OCS
> functionality, especially iMeeting. The price comparison to Exchange
didn't
> hurt, either... :-)
>
> By the way, both of these installs were on a single Dell server, which is
> something that Oracle has not yet figured out how to do, apparently. The
> complicating issue is not collapsing everything onto a single server,
which
> is pretty straightforward (as with Oracle E-Business Suites).
>
> Rather, it is more that a single-server install makes things more
> complicated from a security perspective, as you have to be much more
> specific about what ports are opened to the internet and which ports are
> not. As with Oracle E-Business Suites, OCS uses lots and lots of network
> ports, but E-Biz is usually a purely intranet app and rarely (if ever?)
> faces the big bad internet. Believe me, put a server on the internet and
> you *will* be hacked within 4 hours...
>
> For 500 users, you'd definitely want a two-server configuration anyway, so
> it's probably a moot point. Let me know if you'd like some HW sizing
info?
>
> Hope this helps...
>
> -Tim
>
>
> on 8/20/03 2:49 PM, Brian Haas at bhaas_at_musiciansfriend.com wrote:
>
> > Hello all,
> >
> > We're looking at Oracle collaboration suite and I'm wondering if anyone
here
> > is
> > using it? If so, how is it working? Any issues? I know Oracle corp is
using it
> > for all their internal mail so I assume it could handle our 500 or so
users
> > just
> > fine.
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> >
> > -Brian
> >
> >
>
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