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Re: Oracle 10G for Solaris x86

From: Niall Litchfield <niall.litchfield_at_dial.pipex.com>
Date: Tue, 27 Jul 2004 20:11:22 +0100
Message-ID: <4106a8bd$0$6445$cc9e4d1f@news-text.dial.pipex.com>


"UNIX admin" <tripivceta_at_hotmail.com> wrote in message news:41069ee8$0$1940$5402220f_at_news.sunrise.ch...
> In my experience, whenever I see a "UNIX" product that has "./install.sh"
> (OK, not so with Oracle, but you catch my drift), it tells me that the
> vendor doesn't really know what is going on. Translated, they don't have a
> clue about UNIX, but need to have their product working on it. Usually the
> work ends up being done by some Windows developer who never went near a
true
> UNIX machine in his life before that.

Not in the case of Oracle. Its pretty damn clear that the OUI folks either have never considered windows, or have considered and rejected it. VB programmers with 6 months work experience write better *windows* installers than OUI. Errm I don't like it much...

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Niall Litchfield
Oracle DBA
http://www.niall.litchfield.dial.pipex.com
Received on Tue Jul 27 2004 - 14:11:22 CDT

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