Re: native Oracle-port on Linux -- what would it take?

joelga_at_pebble.ml.org (Joel Garry) writes:

> In article <EM3rHv.4nA_at_spuddy.mew.co.uk>,
> Stephen Harris <sweh_at_spuddy.mew.co.uk> wrote:
> >
> >Blugh? Have you installed Unix Oracle on any platform? The install
> >routines (orainst, and root.sh) are broken so badly... (sorry, quick
> >divergence into a minor rant about broken Oracle install routines)
>
> Yeah, I've ranted for years, why can't Oracle understand it ain't good business
> to piss off people right after you've taken their check? I guess a few years
> of raking in the bucks makes you think you are doing something right.

*sigh* what is frustrating is that it is SO easy to put together an oracle rpm. I've done so, but, i can't distribute it because of oracle's licensing (no shocker here), however, i've been trying to convince oracle that it would be a good thing(tm) to have an rpm distribution of workgroup server so that people could deploy oracle on linux environments. Admittedly, a set of precompiled apps would be nice.

anyone wanna pull out the sword and see if you can convice your friendly oracle sales rep to assist?

> >approximately 3 times more calls logged to our name than any other
> >organisation. And most of the calls escalate to America because they are
> >clever problems we've found. We've even had the code writers talking to us
> >trying to track down the problems. _That's_ hostile in a commercial
> >environment. But we pay our $$$ license fees and they have to grin and bear
> >it.

kool! see if you can convince those people that they want to have me send them (the oracle folks) the rpm so that they can give it to you (legit) and let you test it out for me :)

• craig