Enterprise-wide development environments?

How do you guys set up your application building shops?

I want each ejb developer to have a local copy of Oracle Enterprise Edition, with the default database installed. I then, through source control, will give them the init.ora, startup and shutdown scripts and the database code to build the latest database schema.

We then have a larger machine for me and my database developers to work on the code while constantly worrying about performance. We then have one more honking machine for QA. Another machine for production and one hotfix, that looks like production.

The thing I don't like about each developer having a local instance is that each developer will have to learn enough about the database to be comfortable being a proxy for their database administration duties.

The thing I like about each developer having a local instance is that each developer will have to learn enough about the database to be comfortable being a proxy for their database administration duties.

What do you guys think?

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