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

I had the same problem on the Dec Alpha. It took me and the highly-paid consultants several weeks to successfuly installed it. Wow.... I wished there's a GUI installation (like InstallShield) in Windows environment for these products.

P.S. No offense, but the Sybase System 10 / 11only took less than 30 minutes.

semmett_at_osf1.gmu.edu (Steve J Emmett) wrote:

>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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Received on Sun Aug 04 1996 - 00:00:00 CEST