Oracle Reports Server: is it that good?

I am trying to evaluate the reports server product in the HP-UX environment. I am familiar with all of the major benefits (load balancing, clustering, caching), but not convinced that it really does that much in a small volume request environment (couldn't utilize clustering). I am trying to define the gap between going with report server or developing our own load balancing and serving mechanisms. Essentially report server just makes rwrun60 calls in the background, so why couldn't we make rwrun60 calls from our web pages? Yes, report server already has the report engine loaded into memory which may provide a minor performance improvement, but what can report server do that we could do ourselves by just explictly calling rwrun60? Anyone out there using it or got any input? Tia,
Jason

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Before you buy. Received on Wed Jul 19 2000 - 00:00:00 CEST