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[Tanel Põder <tanel.poder.003@xxxxxxx>]

My IFS experience is also from 3 years ago, on one of the first public IFS 
versions.

We could handle the weekly restarts because of some memory leaks, but when a 
virus hit our internal network, it started crawling and modifying all the files 
it saw in any mapped drives of workstations, overloading IFS. 
IFS couldn't handle it anymore, eventually we couldn't start up the SMB 
cartridge anymore, we hacked our files out using ftp cartridge, copied them on 
a regular file server and haven't touched IFS ever since.

It might be a decent product now, thouch (is it still written in Java?)

Tanel.

  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Jared.Still@xxxxxxxxxxx 
  To: oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx 
  Sent: Wednesday, March 31, 2004 10:12 PM
  Subject: Oracle iFS 



  Dear list, 

  Just asking for experiences using iFS, now called "Oracle Content Management 
SDK". 

  I'm casting about for ideas to manage IT documents.  The three things that I 
see as 
  being necessary are these: 

  1.  Ability to easily organize a structure that can be easily drilled down 
into. 
  ie. much like a directory structure 

  2. Full text indexing 

  3. Versioning - date and time of last edit, who edited the doc, and what 
changed. 

  Microsoft Indexing service is a no-brainer for 1 and 2, but I don't believe 
it does #3. 

  iFS seems a likely candidate, though I'm not sure how well it does #3. 

  Then there are commercial document management systems.  Way too expensive 
  and complex. 

  There are alternatives such as KnowledgeTree (open source) but probably just 
  as much work to setup as Oracle iFS. 

  Any good experiences out there with iFS for this type of usage? 

  TIA 

  Jared