Re: Collaboration Suite

> switch back to regular fileserver which I now know should be used for
> serving files anyway.

In the future of course, 'regular' file servers will actually be running on top of a database. SQL Server if your file server happens to be of the M$ variety.

Will SysAdmins also need to be DBA's? ;)

Jared

On Fri, 2003-08-22 at 00:39, Tanel Poder wrote:
> 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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>
> > 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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