Re: anyone use oracle collaboration suite?

hi
i have done the installation of collaboration suite as part of some assessment.this was done about 6-7 months back. the issues
- no support from oracle.no proper documentation.infact support is totally unaware what the product is all about.

• installtion of three tiers ..complete software in two tiers and few lib files for one tier..and even if u decide these can coexist on abox it is mandotory that u have three different oracle homes.
• creation of databases for infrastrucutre reporsitory are all hardcoded and make sure u have enough space on the filesystems. infact i would advise you to go with one huge disk to siffice this requirement.
• i tried tinkering with the template file and stopped the installation in the middle when products were getting installed..well it messesup a lot of things and all errors are very cryptic and have been "cut and pasted" from an obsolete oracle mail product oracle had sometime before.

i did go into the administration part in detail but installation was a pain. i believe that the mail,calendar and the file sharing were ok. but i had to do installation three times over a weekend to get it running by monday. you have to act dumb before the installer and let it do everything. i tried to be a bit smart of moving files etc..collaboration suite breaks.. a good documentation could surely help.  

hope this will help though not very encouraging thx
sai

rgaffuri_at_cox.net wrote:
I saw a presentation on this. How difficult is this thing to install, configure, and administer? How good is it in practice? Its pretty cheap as far as Oracle products go.

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