Re: The Denis Prize

I presume it's the database you mean HJR

There's a consolation prize that does the same for 902IAS

"Howard J. Rogers" <hjr_at_dizwell.com> wrote in message news:401c960d$0$29131$afc38c87_at_news.optusnet.com.au...
> 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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Received on Sun Feb 01 2004 - 10:07:45 CST