Is the use of Oracle and COM+ too massive a risk?

From: Silent Sadness <ap_osborne_at_hotmail.com>
Date: Sat, 24 Mar 2001 19:54:23 -0000
Message-ID: <985463669.22477.0.nnrp-13.c1ed9f09@news.demon.co.uk>

Having read some newsgroup articles I have rapidly come to the conclusion that a lot of people are having significant problems when deciding to develop services in COM+ that transact against an Oracle database (sometimes even SQL server).

Scenario
Given that we can setup the environment correctly; will not be running in a distributed transaction environment; will utilise the Microsoft OLEDB provider (minimise risk, maximise support option); but will be dealing with significant volume.

Question
Can I rely on this service to be up 24*7 or are the bugs that have been noted been resolved or am I going to be forcing me to reboot my NT 2000 box(es) and run out of client connections on my oracle database (Unix land)?

Basically is this route even vaguely worth the effort for the supposed reward. Received on Sat Mar 24 2001 - 13:54:23 CST