Is MTS reliable with Oracle?

I am interested to hear from those that have Microsoft Transaction Server working with Oracle 7.3/8 in a production environment. I have followed the knowledge base articles and was successful in getting MTS to work with Oracle, and more importantly to roll back transactions.

However the MTS/Oracle fix is kludgie at best; in addition I have read in the newsgroups of people with problems in a production environment including hanging problems. Oracle is our standard database, and we are forced to use it, else we would implement SQL Server and save ourselves the headache :)

The application we are developing is a workflow and document management application, with over 1,000 users. Currently we are in the development/prototyping phase, utilizing ActiveX components in a web browser.

So I would like to know how reliable the two products are together, and the specific configuration details including: Operating System, Oracle version + patches, Oracle parameter settings, type of application, number of users, etc.

Note: for the flamers of this architecture, please suggest an alternative if criticising this one.

Thanks

faizul.hamid_at_moh.gov.on.ca Received on Fri Mar 10 2000 - 00:00:00 CST