The Denis Prize

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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