Re: 9ias On Unix or NT ?

"Ban Spam" <ban-spam_at_operamail.com> wrote in message news:Xns9139C2041147ESunnySD_at_24.0.3.73...
> "Mark Bailey" <mb.1_at_virgin.net> wrote in
> news:t_%x7.15603$fo2.1737190_at_news6-win.server.ntlworld.com:
>
> > We are going to use 9ias for our middle tier application server and
> > will be using it to run Forms and Reports. Our applications will have a
> > maximum of 100 connected users.
> >
> > Can anyone advise on the advantages / disadvantages of running on Unix
> > / NT., or point us in the direction where this information is available
> > ? Additionally, if there is one, what is the industry preferred
> > operating system to run 9ias ?
> >
> > Many Thanks.
> >
> > Mark
> >
>
>
> I've been struggling for a couple of weeks with 9iAS on Solaris.
> Many of the Oracle tools have case sensitivity problems WRT file
> names. Sometimes one Tool wants the file to be like "Base.pll",
> while a different tool wants the same file to be named "BASE.pll",
> etc. Needless to say, on Windoze, such "differences" don't exist.
>
> Even though I am a died in the wool Solaris supporter who does
> NOT "do Windows". I'm beginning to wonder if it would be just
> easier to setup a W2K, load 9iAS & be done with all this nonsense.
>
> I get the distinct impression that all the Oracle "development tools"
> were written on/under NT & then ported to *nix. Base upon the almost
> 100% TOTAL lack of NOTES on MetaStink for 9iAS on *nix, I suspect
> we are effectively pioneers. (A pioneer is somebody who is so far
> out in front of most other folks, they tend to still catch arrows
> in their backs.)
>
> If anybody is successfully running FORMS60 Server & REPORTS60
> Server on *nix, I'd like to hear from you.
>
> HTH & YMMV!
We run 9iAS successfully on Solaris, but you're right about the case sensitivity problems with respect to Forms. I looked this up on Metalink a couple of weeks ago and the best it could come up with is to create links, i.e.

    ln -s Base.pll BASE.pll

It's not pretty, but it's effective and it also means that you only have to update the one file and all the other representations will be updated automatically. Received on Mon Oct 15 2001 - 18:21:09 CDT