Re: Do sites actually install Oracle themselves ? What a nightmare...

Atif Ahmad Khan (aak2_at_Ra.MsState.Edu) wrote:

: Oh boy, you have touched several nerves by bringing it up.
: After trying to install Oracle on a new machine for a week
: and then looking at the install scripts (so stupid) I am so
: pissed that I could kill the sun of a gun who wrote these
: scripts for wasting so much of my time.

It took you only a week?! It took me close to a month installing 7.2.2.3 on an HP900/K200 running HP-UX10.01. Documentation is absolutely wrong in several places. Scripts are close to worthless. Support is non existant. In spite of Oracle (suport and software) I got the bugger to work.

: What kind of a product do you expect from a company who cant
: write the friggin install scripts correctly ?

A product that owns the market and expects you to beta test just about everything they release. Remind you of a company located in the NW US that expects the same from its customers?

: That was my experience on Solaris x86 2.5.1. And then I also
: tried the demo version of their webserver for NT. I got the
: error saying that a file was missing from the distribution ?
 

: What are these people smoking when they are writing this stuff ?
 

: Atif Khan
: aak2_at_ra.msstate.edu

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