Oracle Portal - 1 year on, how are we all doing?

Hi all,
I imagine it's been a busy year for all of you.
We've now had Oracle Portal in place since December 2000. We've
gone from 3.0.7.6.2 to 3.0.8.9.8 and now to 3.0.9.8.2.
We've had an up hill struggle, with 9iAS and Portal bugs,
instability of our JServ, issues around load balancing and many
other problems.
I just wanted to get a general concensus of whether it's been
smooth running or a difficult time for you all?
Thanks
Gary
Development Manager
Vivendi Water UK Gary,
You have posed a very good question to begin the year with. I
think that the portal has a lot good potential but a lot of
things that would and should be easy to configure are not.
An example would be the ability to have a multiple select LOV.
You can do it but it does require that you create a custom type
to provide this functionality.
Another example would be the api a "beautiful mind" obviously
created them but the mortal society in general has a hard time
implementing them and please don't get me started on the
permissions required to use an api.
If you could contact me I happen to be working with a large
government contractor and I wouuld like ALL the oracle products
to shine especially the portal. If you happen to know the
product or development manager for the IFS product I would
appreciate speaking with both of you regarding some of the best
practices for implementing security properly.
BTW...
I happened to have a dba background and also was an employee of
Oracle in the US instructor group. Most of my issues have been
making use of the API. I would like to speak with you off line
about some of the issues which may or may not be what you were
looking for information.
cell:732-614-7213
email:[email protected]

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