Load Balancing for Oracle Release 11i

Hi there,
I am trying to find some recommendations on the need for load balancing in the middle tier for a 3 tier Oracle Release 11i implementation. Here are the questions that I have.
1. Is load balancing very common for a 11i implementation ?
2. What are the probable issues that one might encounter if there is no load balancing ?
3. If there is load balancing how many servers are generally used for the same ?
4. Do we only install Forms server on multiple servers or we install WebDB and Apache on all the servers ?
5. Is it true that Web servers are the most likely to be down and thus mandating the use of load balancing ? If that is true, would it be prudent to install Web Server and Form Server on each server m/c and in the process having redundant servers ?
Let me know your thoughts.
Thanks,
- Raj

I'm in the middle of doing this right now. There is a doc on metalink (233428.1) that details the process. I would highly recommend trying this in dev/test env first. Even though the instructions are very straight forward and not very complicated, I'm still having configuration issues.
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