Re: Oracle Personal Edition Sucks!

xg_at_oraclexg.com wrote:
> http://codebetter.com/blogs/sahil.malik/archive/2004/08/28/23563.aspx
> wrote:
>
> Allright, so I installed Oracle personal edition on my desktop. Here
> are my peeves against oracle -
>
> a) First of all, the installation was in 3 cd's equivalent - so much
> for microsoft being bloatware.
> b) When my PC boots up, I have Oracle's process taking up 96 MB of
> memory compared to SQL Server's under 10MB, the memory usage keeps
> going up exponentially as I use either product.
> c) Here's my biggest problem - when I wanted to uninstall Oracle, it
> isn't in add/remove programs like all other friendly citizens of the
> computer world, instead it has it's own crappy java based installer,
> and instead of uninstall they prefer to call it "Deinstall", and
> what's worse in the treeview it shows me, when I check an item to be
> unistalled, the zillions of items under it, are still unchecked - are
> they going to be uninstalled or will they be not? It takes a minimum of
> 3-4 hours to individually check everything there is.
> d) When the frickin' "de"-installation is complete, the installer
> remains on the system. But it's group dissappears from my start menu or
> add/remove programs or everywhere. Is there spyware in that?
> e) Talk about all the JUNK that Oracle installed in the first place,
> look at your registry before and after Oracle got done trading the soul
> of your poor PC, it adds many megabytes of information to the registry
> .. what in the world !!!!
>
> Larry Ellison IMHO has only one business idea - "Defeat bill gates
> and trap every programmer in matrix like pods powering oracle
> databases". WHAT THE HECK !! Time he matured up a bit.
>
> SQL Server, especially Yukon is a MUCH better dbms in my opinion, the
> only reason Oracle will continue to survive is
>
> a) Anti-Microsoft Zealots and Bigots .. and ..
> b) The huge installed base of Oracle (It isn't easy porting your DBMS
> from Oracle to SQL Server).

Yes they should scrap Personal Edition and replace it with a free, almost-fully featured version that is easy to download and install.

Oh wait, they have. Received on Thu Apr 20 2006 - 08:45:25 CDT