Re: Oracle iAS?

It is not a "mature" product - it's only been out a month or two. iAS ships with Forms Server 6i and Reports Server 6i. I know Designer 6i only runs against 8.1.6 Enterprise Edition, so you'd better check the certification matrix for iAS. Also remember that iAS is intended to sit on the middle tier - there may be some hardware architecture issues for you if you're not already running a three tier setup.
You can get a free trial edition of iAS from Oracle and there is some documentation on the CDs. It's probably also on the web although well buried. Check out white papers, technical bulletins aswell as documentation and post a query to Metalink. Also search Metalink for previous queries. And note that some of the documentation will be listed under various iAS pieces - the cache, Forms Server 61, etc.

Van

"Cristian Veronesi" <c.veronesi_at_crpa.it> wrote in message news:39B8D7F0.C7A8836_at_crpa.it...
Does someone has some info about Oracle iAS - some *real* info, not the blah blah blah that you can find on the Oracle website? Since it is considered not only as the next major release of the Application Server, but even as a new product (release 1.0!) I wish to know if is a mature product or not. We are using WAS 3.0 that is full of bugs, but we do not want to worsen the situation. Another question: since the complete product name is "Oracle Internet Application Server 8i" I wish to know if it works only with Oracle 8i or if we can keep the database and the PL/SQL stored procedure in our 7.3.4 version for now.

Best Wishes, Cristian

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