Application Development Software

Hi,

I'm hoping that someone out there will have a similar situation and can help. First, I'm not a DBA or Developer. I'm a Windows/Citrix administrator. I'm in charge of a Citrix farm running Oracle Developer Suite 10G and Toad. The actual database is on the Sun Solaris side. Our developers use SunRay thin clients connecting to the UNIX side first then running a UNIX ICA client to access the Citrix farm and the Oracle Dev. Suite.

I inherited the whole configuration and the only thing I can do is to build new, faster servers on the Windows side to help the developers. The environment is such a mess though and there is no documentation. None of the developers are configured just alike and none of them understand anything about what is happening behind the scenes. All they know is that they have problems and are frustrrated. Any help, any usable suggestions (other than trashing the whole system) will be greatly appreciated.

What I'd like to do is:
Install and configure the application suite, creating a standard configuration and documentation.
Configure/Tune Windows/Citrix and Oracle to perform optimally in our environment
Configure developer roaming profiles/home directories optimally for Oracle suite use
Configure settings within the suite to tune/optimize performance

Current Configuration:
Windows 2003 Server Std., SP3 - 32 bit
Citrix Metaframe XPe, SP3, FR3
Sun Solaris UNIX 10
Oracle Developer's Suite 10G

Again, any help will be really appreciated as our DBA and Dev team cannot help. It is up to me to figure out what will work best and then to document it so it can be reproduced next time we upgrade. Which reminds me, we're also looking to upgrade to 64bit, Windows 2008 Server Std., Citrix XenApp 5.0 in the very near future. If anyone has any information to share on this, I'd really appreciate that too!

Thanks in advance!
Connie