Re: RDBMS-based Intranet groupware products vs Notes : RDBMS vs proprietary doc. storage

Hi,
With your Intranet solution, even if you do need two servers as recommended, the http server would simply be serving html pages while the other server handling the backend DBMS. The http server could be a simple low end machine. Essentially you are distributing the processing between two servers to improve overall performance. Nothing wrong with that.
I would personally be a bit surprised if a Notes solution would give you equal performance running on one machine. So please keep me posted on this :)

Thanks
Vipul

Jean-Philippe JAVEL <jpjavel_at_worldnet.fr> wrote:

>I am currently evaluating Intranet groupware products, competitors to Lotus Notes, for a
>2000 user project.
 

>Such products, for example recently launched Oracle Interoffice or OpenText Livelink
>Intranet, are usually based on a RDBMS such as Oracle7. Document files (Word etc.) are
>stored in BLOB long rows of the relational DBMS. Such an architecture seems to require a
>powerful (and expensive) server : for example, at least a bi-processor Sun Ultra 2, 256
>Mo RAM for about 200 concurrent users.
>OpenText France recommands to have the HTTPd running on one server and the RDBMS on
>another more powerful one.
>Implementing replication like for Notes would reduce a major benefit of Intranet
>architectures : the capacity for a single server to serve (well) several sites.
 

>so, RDBMS vs proprietary (such as Notes) document storage ?
 

>Has anyone experience of RDBMS Intranet products (InterOffice, Livelink etc.) handling
>hundreds of concurrent users efficiently on a single server ? Are RDBMS such as Oracle 7
>Universal Server mature enough for managing thousands of Word, Excel etc. files ?
>What hardware is required for the HTTPd and RDBMS compared to Lotus Notes 4 ?
 

>Please answer by e-mail too.
 

>Jean-Philippe JAVEL
>Consultant
>Valoris Groupe - Paris, France
>Tel : (33.1) 41.90.31.11