gregglarkin
Legendary Poster
Heard something interesting yesterday from an unnamed Oracle employee. Oracle 11G will be delayed a bit. They are going to make some major changes. They are going to dump OC4J in 11G. In it's place will be Weblogic. He didn't mention anything about the Oracle portal, but that would be a logical assumption as well. This was not a formal announcement, but it comes from an inside source. Should be interesting to follow.
On a different note, for those on the fence trying to decide whether to use Websphere or OAS for their application server, I have an opinion. OAS. It is a much more comprehensive product, is very configurable, and has a lot more logging information than websphere. A lot. The one caveat, if you are setting up a high availibility application server farm with OAS, make sure you have, or budget for, an Oracle database cluster. The product comes with O-lite, which is OK for a test server, but you will need a good metadata repository for your farm, especially if you use the farm for more than just the JDE presentation layer. If you plan on setting up the SOA suite and BPEL (which is the foundation of Oracle Fusion), you will need an Oracle database for your metadata repository.
Gregg
On a different note, for those on the fence trying to decide whether to use Websphere or OAS for their application server, I have an opinion. OAS. It is a much more comprehensive product, is very configurable, and has a lot more logging information than websphere. A lot. The one caveat, if you are setting up a high availibility application server farm with OAS, make sure you have, or budget for, an Oracle database cluster. The product comes with O-lite, which is OK for a test server, but you will need a good metadata repository for your farm, especially if you use the farm for more than just the JDE presentation layer. If you plan on setting up the SOA suite and BPEL (which is the foundation of Oracle Fusion), you will need an Oracle database for your metadata repository.
Gregg