Oracle 10gR2 on Vista

Given that I teach at a university it was inevitable. One of my students bought a new laptop and due to the monopolistic practices of Microsoft had no option to get XP and ended up with Vista.

Well to make a long, and ugly, story short I was able to beat Vista into submission and have posted the steps in Morgan's Library under Microsoft Vista Enterprise and Oracle.
http://www.psoug.org/reference/vista.html

For those not wishing to go there here is what I discovered on a brand new IBM ThinkPad T60 with 2GB RAM.

1. It is glacially slow
2. There are more dialog boxes then grains of sand on the beach
3. It isn't 1/10th the operating system Apple had two years ago
4. It eats CPU like a starving hyena eats mice?
5. Given the choice between using Vista with Oracle or getting a papercut I'd take the papercut.

But for those similarly victimized by their hardware vendor ... it is posted, it works, and I do not know the implications with respect to security, stability, scalability, or anything else.

Did I mention it is glacially slowwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww?

-- 
Daniel A. Morgan
University of Washington
damorgan_at_x.washington.edu
(replace x with u to respond)
Puget Sound Oracle Users Group
www.psoug.org