oracle? need help with installation

[Christopher Browne]

On Fri, Oct 17, 2008 at 5:33 PM, Zbigniew Koziol <softquake-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w at public.gmane.org> wrote:
> This is Oracle Express Edition 10g (a free version, for non-commercial use).
>
> Anybody around have some idea about that beast? I guess so. I am not
> going to write to the list about technical details - that would
> probably be too boring subject for most around.
>
> Please write to me personally.
>
> I am not new to servers and databases. When however I try to resolve
> the problem I have by googling, I face the wall.
>
> Please write and I will explain in details.

I'm a bit surprised that Googling *doesn't* do much good.

Historically, there have been a moderate number of complications
involved in doing an Oracle install, e.g., it involves a small,
non-zero number of "magical incantations" to get it working.

It seems surprising that the quantity would have gone up, as there is
certainly a cost to such complications that may be nicely multiplied
by the number of installations at each site that they sell to.  An
extra 8h per installation will presumably cost at least a few times
that per customer, which then multiplies into the hundreds of
thousands, and if you multiply by any sort of OCP DBA hourly rate,
that adds up to a significant portion of the cost of an extra Samurai
sword for Larry Ellison.

These days, Oracle's big on having certified platforms; if you're
running a "bog standard" SuSE or RHAS/RHES, I'd not expect there to be
a lot not included in the instructions.  And running Oracle on
anything that's NOT pathologically standard would be really unwise, as
you'd never get any kind of support if you did.

But I daresay I haven't installed Oracle in a couple of years, so
things might be different.
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