Re: Migrating to 9iAS from Developer/2000

Not really a problem with our large corporate license with Oracle.

But, from my perspective, justs complicates more than I would think is needed.

It should at least be an option to run Forms/Report servers without an Infrastructure database.

"dmz17" <dmz17_at_nospam.nowhere.com> wrote in message news:pan.2003.02.16.17.18.46.901533_at_nospam.nowhere.com...
> On Sun, 09 Feb 2003 14:05:33 +0000, JustAnotherDBA wrote:
>
> > It just bothers me that I have to have a database just for AS . I don't
> > think you would want to use some database in a shared mode - some AS and
> > some application stuff.
> >
> > Mainly because AS requires Internet Directory being installed in the
> > infrastructure database.
> >
> > So, just a lot of stuff/overhead that doesn't seem necessary to me just
 to
> > run forms server.
>
> It should come as no surprise that Oracle, given half a chance, will try
> to sell you a database license if all you want is a middle tier solution.
>
> If it doesn't wrap in a database, Oracle doesn't want to touch it.
>
> For the middle tier, Oracle chose to implement LDAP in a database.
> The portal stuff has to go in a database as well.
>
> IMHO
>
> Cheers,
>
> dmz17
Received on Mon Feb 17 2003 - 05:02:23 CET