Re: Need INfo on ORACLE Web Server

In article <4j19bk$stc_at_gaia.cc.gatech.edu>, badri_at_cc.gatech.edu (badri) wrote:

> Hi:
>
> I need the following information:
>
> a) What does ORACLE Web server provide that others don't?
> b) What is your comment on the cost-benefit ratio of using
> ORACLE's web server as opposed to another?
> c) Development time on the product
> d) User-friendliness
>
> Any comments would be greatly appreciated,
>
> thanks a lot,
>
> -Badri

We have deployed Oracle Web. You can see some of the early results at http://www.pdc.cornell.edu/PDC/Know/pdcknow.html. My personal thoughts are that it is very expensive ($5K), a bit slow at execution time in our case, too difficult to develop (lots of code) and non portable to other dbs. A particular problem is that the dynamic queries must be brute force coded - there is no way to dynamically change the query depending on the attributes a user wants to qualify a search on without lots of code - and other cheaper tools can do this. I guess I had high expectations. You can get a sample of the code that made the queries at http://128.253.114.57:/. On the plus side: it is nice to have web-database connectivity and multithreaded capability is nice. However, I would prefer a code generator and would have prefered mething like Spider technologies if they had ported to NT.

• Steve