Seklos just posted a story on his Oracle blog on how he installed Oracle 10something in less than an hour.
I found the story hilarious. why . because about a decade ago ..
when I was still into database & webdevelopment, Oracle first
started shipping Oracle for Linus (somewhere in 99)
Back then some collegue had been struggling for a couple of days
already to setup up Oracle on a Windows box and was thinking to
just use SQL server.
So I went home found the famous CD with the typo (or did I really
get the CD that should have been shipped to Finland ?) in my
mailbox and as I had a new Siemens Server sitting in my basement,
I installed a fresh RedHat and on a machine I never had seen
before (that's the ninetees I`m talking about so no fancy just
install it on most common hardware and it will work like we have
these days) and then went on installing an …