Re: The Denis Prize

Howard J. Rogers wrote:

> I would like to offer $5000 (aussie dollars, that is, which I realise makes
> this as valuable as a Zimbabwean tobacco farm in a drought) to the first
> person that can produce an install of Oracle for Linux that works with the
> mere insertion of a CD. Said install must work with all and any Linux
> distributions (it's all the same operating system, after all, isn't it?). It
> must be as automatic as the, cough, Windows install is. It must do
> everything right, and it must automatically give you the chance to say
> whether or not you'd like a database, listener, agent and management server
> to automatically start at reboot. And it must make those things
> automatically re-start if you ask for them to. Multiple CDs are fine, but
> crappy install routines aren't.
>
> Since the prize is named in honour of my father, it's got to be an
> installation that he would have coped with. Namely, a couple of OK's and a
> Yes.The Oracle-supplied nonsense is assumed to be standard.
>
> I'm looking for slick, simple, mindless, automatic, fault-tolerant and
> Windows-like.
>
> Serious offer, by the way. Claims to be addressed to admin_at_dizwell.com
>
> Regards
> HJR
Well if Mark Townsend doesn't take the prize he should hang his head in shame. ;-) Personally I've always thought the entire root.sh stuff was ridiculous.

Uh Howard ... you didn't mention a version or edition? And how about against which version of the Linux O/S? Do you really want a routine that works perfectly installing Oracle 6.0 on SUSE 1.0? Or do you expect something that works with all Oracle versions and editions against all versions of Linux by all companies that sell it?

I'd suggest a bit more detail will make it more likely that everyone will be happy with your very generous offer.

That frustrated eh? ;-)

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