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Steve Peters <steve.peters@xxxxx.xxx> wrote: > As I leasurely read through Oracle's website on Oracle XE, one word stood > out -- Debian. "Hmmm," I thought, "I should be able to get this to install > on my Ubuntu box." I quickly (as quickly as 150MB can be) downloaded the > file for Linux. 150 MB ?? I'm amazed. Previous versions of Oracle took much more than that, at least a whole CD-ROM. That's a pretty concentrated can of hate^Wsoftware you downloaded here. Maybe it's dehydrated? But it also means that they removed one of my traditional sources of hate against Oracle? the multiple installation of full blown Java SDK, with the sources zip. Up to three different version in some "enterprise" versions. -- Sébastien Aperghis-Tramoni Close the world, txEn eht nepO.
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