Dirk,

Here at my site, it was decided to abandon InterMedia. I think the main
reason was the lack of developers capable of supporting it. Excalibur's
search engine is being considered as alternative, but from my limited
exposure to the project I understand that it has limitations in handling
BLOB/CLOB fields, at least at the current release level. Btw, in direct
response to one of your questions: Intermedia index does NOT suck the
content out of Oracle, but rather is stored INSIDE of Oracle, where it can
be happily utilized, maintained and abused. Excalibur, on the other hand,
"scans" Oracle and builds its indexes elsewhere. Watch out for time required
by Excalibur to index Oracle tables, rebuild existing indexes, and take into
consideration mechanism required to keep existing Excalibur indexes
current - triggers'r'us.

Gary

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Hi folks,

I'll be working on a project pretty soon where I will have to use
Excalibur. The goals are:

- integrating the contents of my database with the company-wide running
  Excalibur. Questions: How good is Intermedia at sucking content from
Oracle
  schemas? Is there a required format for access control lists? I know
there's
  a gateway and I suppose this is pretty straight forward.

- for some reason I'll even have to replace Intermedia with Excalibur. Any
  thoughts on this?

cheers Dirk
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