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Re: Does Oracle Portal REALLY works ?

From: Anna C. Dent <anacedent_at_hotmail.com>
Date: Mon, 21 Jul 2003 16:28:55 -0700
Message-ID: <UG_Sa.16508$Ne.2881@fed1read03>


kn wrote:
> comments embedded!
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> "Sybrand Bakker" <gooiditweg_at_sybrandb.demon.nl> wrote in message
> news:bj9ohv0og6o77eoh931op7doedef6869nn_at_4ax.com...
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>>On 21 Jul 2003 08:26:12 -0700, faldi_at_yahoo.com (Andrea) wrote:
>>
>>
>>>Hello,
>>>we are building a portal with Oracle portal for the first time and are
>>>experiencing many problems:
>>>- installation (problems if you change the IP adress, have you ever
>>>tried doing it? You have to reinstall everything to make it work),
>>>- the learning curve is very long,
>>>- it seems a really unstable thing yet.
>>>
>>>In these condition we think
>>>Apache/Tomcat or ATG portal are still a better option
>>>
>>>What's your opinion ?
>>>
>>>Thanks, Andrea
>>
>>
>>Question: why are you using a hardcoded IP-address?

>
>
> I have found that it's a little bit more than difficult to avoid that.
> The learning curve is steep, but I agree
> 'one should definiately avoid hardcoded IP addresses'.
>
> Somewhat different subject: I have heard that Oracle will
> provide a limited version of the 9ias, so it will be possible
> to run web forms (6i/9i) without having to licence the whole 9ias
> and then one perhaps can use portal as a menu start/single signon ...
>
> I don't have any written reference to the above statement, but I
> can obtain a reference from the consultant who told me. He
> is on vacation, so it may take a while before I can reply.
>

9iAS R2 Portal REQUIRES OID/SSO to be installed; which has NOTHING to do (necessarily) with webforms. So you need to install both the Infrastructure and the Business Intelligence components to get Portal up. Received on Mon Jul 21 2003 - 18:28:55 CDT

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