Oracle, you failed attracting me for now
November 18th, 2008 Posted in englishDear Oracle,
today I had some spare time I wanted to use for something productive so I decided to setup Oracle 11g on a 64bit linux system but I quickly found out that I can only use Oracle 10g XE for free where XE stands for Express Edition so I headed for this version on your website and I was looking for a 64bit linux binary which simply wasn’t available. I hit google to find out if it’s just a thing of your well designed and structured website but apparently it’s not because people are trying to load all kinds of 32bit libraries to get your 32bit Oracle 10g XE binary for linux running in a 64bit environment. After I discovered that I was thinking about setting up virtualbox to set up a clean 32bit linux environment but then I read up an article on wikipedia.org which claimed that Oracle 10g XE is only willing to handle up to 1G of ram…ehh…failed!
If you really want to come down from your arrogant turd start to be “compatible” and “portable”. In the meantime I’m playing with more compatible and portable systems.
Thanks.
2 Responses to “Oracle, you failed attracting me for now”
By Ebrahim on Nov 19, 2008
You don’t know about dpkg -i –force-architecture and chroot jails, do you?!
By Andreas Schipplock on Nov 21, 2008
I do and that was exactly what I was referring to when I mentioned “because people are trying to load all kinds of 32bit libraries to get your 32bit Oracle 10g XE binary for linux running in a 64bit environment” but this isn’t accectable for me.
Thanks for mentioning it. Perhaps others are willing to try it :).