Re: Oracle 10g Server on Windows XP Pro

"Howard J. Rogers" <hjr_at_dizwell.com> wrote in message news:<40b6809f$0$8986$afc38c87_at_news.optusnet.com.au>...
> "Ian Smith" <ian.smith_at_irascian.com> wrote in message
> news:de616ff6.0405271430.2add4a90_at_posting.google.com...
> > "Howard J. Rogers" <hjr_at_dizwell.com> wrote in message
> news:<40b5d2d3$0$31674$afc38c87_at_news.optusnet.com.au>...

> [snip]
>
> > > is sad, since several thousand other downloaders can't all have stuffed
> it
> > > up as magisterially as you and your colleagues appear to have done.
> >
> > Ah here we go again with the "opinion" stuff that is so endemic to
> > your responses, but which you have repeatedly criticised me for.
>
> Again, it is not 'opinion', but a logical deduction from the quantity of
> posts (or more precisely, the lack of them) on the subject.
>

I think there may be a skew that throws off that deduction. Perhaps those who have downloaded 10g up to now are likely "bleeding-edgers" who are likely to be able to deal with the problems, or are newbies so overwhelmed they don't even know to post here and give up.

That may well change in the near future as more "mainstreamers" deal with the issues. I'd surmise if you got a representative group of several thousand working Oracle DBA's together, only a small percentage would have done 10g so far, and much smaller still in production. Are you sure those several thousand downloaders aren't several hundred doing it ten times?

Certainly my experience with OAS10g has been, it's much easier to install, but there are bugs and strangeness that I shouldn't be finding now that I'm actually doing stuff with it. That's ok, it's just an AS. DB server issues are fundamentally more profound. Which is probably why OAS10g does not use 10g.
> [snip]

jg

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