RE: Oracle iFS
- From: "Weiss, Ben " <bweiss@xxxxxxxx>
- To: "'oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx'" <oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 1 Apr 2004 10:15:46 -0500
We are using a document management API from Redhat. Cost: $0.00. It's open
source.
You can deploy Oracle Text with it to get full text searching, although we
have not done this. Versioning is supported, as is a drilldown structure.
The application is java, J2EE compliant. We run it via WebSphere. Files are
stored as BLOB within Oracle. We are at 380 GB worth of BLOBs at present.
Meta data, TEMP and UNDO drive total database size up to 440 GB. In our
deployment, the developers tell me we use the API to handle the the
versioning, checkin/checkout and other behind the scenes stuff. The GUI in
our deployment is all built by our developers.
Tricky part is where this API fits into Redhat's marketing approach. They
publicize on their website something called Content Management server, which
is a bit different.
To find out more about the API, you will want to contact Redhat directly,
because it seems hidden from view on the website. This API came from
ArsDigita, a company that RedHat bought. The one place you can read a little
about the API framework is http://ccm.redhat.com <http://ccm.redhat.com> .
But it makes no specific mention of document management.
You can contact me directly if I can be of help.
Ben
-----Original Message-----
From: oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]On
Behalf Of Tanel Põder
Sent: Thursday, April 01, 2004 4:39 AM
To: oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: Oracle iFS
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 <mailto:Jared.Still@xxxxxxxxxxx>
To: oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx <mailto: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
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