Comments on: Taking a “Sneak Peek” At XML Publisher 5.6 Enterprise

By: Klaus

Klaus — Tue, 13 Feb 2007 18:43:14 +0000

XML Publisher 10.1.3.2 which is called
BI Publisher 10.1.3.2 has been release now.

It comes with many new features such as bursting and
integration wtih Oracle Business Intelligence Enterprise.

Klaus

By: Klaus

Klaus — Tue, 13 Feb 2007 18:41:31 +0000

XML Publisher is priced very competively. We have a lot of customers already and NO they are not only the biggest companies. The employee pricing is very cheap for small companies.

Of course you will have to recommend your customers to buy the cheapest license that they are eligiable for.

The named user license is very vaguely defined and easy to misunderstand – report consumers qualify as users not only developers and administrators. I just don’t like potential licensing issue associated with that.

Kluas

By: Michael Friedman

Michael Friedman — Sat, 17 Jun 2006 02:28:00 +0000

Klaus,
First, it’s not named user pricing. If it was that, no problem – we understand how to work that.
It’s PER EMPLOYEE!!!!!
Second, let’s get real – at per processor this product is beyond the reach of all but the very largest companies.
Also, I would be seriously abusing my customers if I did not help them buy the cheapest license that they are eligible for.

By: Klaus Fabian

Klaus Fabian — Thu, 08 Jun 2006 06:25:00 +0000

XML Publisher 5.6.2 can be downloaded from edelivery.oracle.com – under Application Server Products. The Windows and Linux installations also contain a platform independent manual install (still takes only about 5 minutes to install).
To be honest I don’t like named user pricing – I think the per processor pricing is much more clear cut. So you can buy per processor and disregard employee pricing.
Klaus

By: Michael Friedman

Michael Friedman — Wed, 03 May 2006 17:01:00 +0000

Now can you just clarify the blasted pricing?
$40 per employee? How the @#$@#$ is that supposed to work?
For example, our typical customer is a garment manufacturer. A typical corporate structure might be a Hong Kong company with 25 staff and a China company with 30 clerical staff and 1,500 workers.
Usually the HK company buys the software but clerical staff in both companies use it.
Now what the heck is the correct price? $1,000? $60,000? What?
Heck, given the cost of setting up a company in HK if you do it this way some of our customers will set up an HK company with 1 employee. $40?!?!? What about if they decide to have no employees? Do they get a free license?
This per-employee pricing is ridiculous.

By: Klaus Fabian

Klaus Fabian — Tue, 02 May 2006 17:55:00 +0000

Hi Michael and Andre:
Quick update on XML Publisher Enterprise 5.6.2:
1) it has been delivered to manufacturing and should be available before the end of the week.
2) We just got in BLOB image support in one of the last builds. However, for some internal compatibility issues we just support BLOBS in Oracle databases – we’ll fix that in the next release.
3) The product can consume simple XML over HTTP, as well as Webservices. You can pass your prompts to webservices.

By: Remeez Persent

Remeez Persent — Mon, 24 Apr 2006 14:06:00 +0000

Hi Mark,
Could you please advise if there is a download we can get to test XML Publisher Enterprise?
Regards
Remeez

By: Andre Jochems

Andre Jochems — Mon, 27 Mar 2006 07:53:00 +0000

Is this product able to consume xml from webservices to build reports? I already have some BPEL processes which get their information from several different sources. It would be great to turn the BPEL XML output into a PDF file with XML Publisher!

By: Tim Dexter

Tim Dexter — Thu, 09 Mar 2006 19:01:00 +0000

Hi Michael
Drop me a mail with some XML with your images in the bsae64 encoding and I’ll show you.
Tim.DexterAtComcastDotNet

By: Michael Friedman

Michael Friedman — Thu, 09 Mar 2006 11:56:00 +0000

Tim,
Thanks for the answer.
Extracting image data to XML is trivial with Oracle – we’re already doing it for EDI. (And admittedly filing many bugs since schema based XMLTYPE views appear quite broken).
But how do we set it up so the templates can consume it?