Re: Oracle iFS

From: Tanel Põder <tanel.poder.003_at_mail.ee>
Date: Thu, 1 Apr 2004 12:38:55 +0300
Message-ID: <063c01c417cd$271700d0$6df923d5@porgand>

My IFS experience is also from 3 years ago, on one of the first public IFS versions.

We could handle the weekly restarts because of some memory leaks, but when a virus hit our internal network, it started crawling and modifying all the files it saw in any mapped drives of workstations, overloading IFS. IFS couldn't handle it anymore, eventually we couldn't start up the SMB cartridge anymore, we hacked our files out using ftp cartridge, copied them on a regular file server and haven't touched IFS ever since.

It might be a decent product now, thouch (is it still written in Java?)

Tanel.

Original Message ----- From: Jared.Still_at_radisys.com To: oracle-l_at_freelists.org Sent: Wednesday, March 31, 2004 10:12 PM Subject: Oracle iFS

Dear list,

Just asking for experiences using iFS, now called "Oracle Content Management SDK".

I'm casting about for ideas to manage IT documents. The three things that I see as being necessary are these:

Ability to easily organize a structure that can be easily drilled down into. ie. much like a directory structure
Full text indexing
Versioning - date and time of last edit, who edited the doc, and what changed.

Microsoft Indexing service is a no-brainer for 1 and 2, but I don't believe it does #3.

iFS seems a likely candidate, though I'm not sure how well it does #3.

Then there are commercial document management systems. Way too expensive and complex.

There are alternatives such as KnowledgeTree (open source) but probably just as much work to setup as Oracle iFS.

Any good experiences out there with iFS for this type of usage?

TIA Jared

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