Re: The Denis Prize

"Telemachus" <Zaka_at_twibbles.99.net> wrote in message news:lv9Tb.1032$rb.53791_at_news.indigo.ie...
> I presume it's the database you mean HJR

Oh God. If it was 9iAS, that would be a $50,000 prize!

Yeah, the DB.

Regards
HJR
>
> There's a consolation prize that does the same for 902IAS
>
>
> "Howard J. Rogers" <hjr_at_dizwell.com> wrote in message
> news:401c960d$0$29131$afc38c87_at_news.optusnet.com.au...
> > 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
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Received on Mon Feb 02 2004 - 06:14:04 CST