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From: Frank van Bortel <frank.van.bortel@gmail.com>
Newsgroups: comp.databases.oracle.server
Subject: Re: QUESTION: Install frustration on Windows
Date: Fri, 03 Mar 2006 21:51:53 +0100
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BD wrote:
>> Well, that answer would have been *soooo* obvious... :)
> 
> Oh, man - my environment has been running various versions of Oracle on
> AIX for years - and now this new crew has been hired out to take over
> the IS of the entire organization, and want to change from Oracle on
> AIX to SQL Server on Wintel. Why, you may ask? Well, because that's
> their standard!
> 
> Gotta love it. Standards for their own sake, with no regard for what
> works or what breaks... might as well just garotte me and get it over
> with.
> 

You have my sympathy.
May your instances rest in peace and revenge themselves from the
other side.
May the force be with you.
-- 
Regards,
Frank van Bortel

Top-posting is one way to shut me up...