Re: Oracle on Windows

Niall Litchfield wrote:

> I was talking about dbca rather than oui. The APIs for adding and
> deleting services and registry entries are published.

And I was talking about Windows so we are doing well enough in miscommunication here to qualify for United Nations membership. ;-)

> In the case of oui Oracle has deliberately chosen not to use the
> platform specific install/uninstall technology set. If it was a windows
> installer routine that failed to cleanly uninstall - certainly I'd
> entertain the possibility that windows installer was
> broken/underdocumented - but Oracle chose to go their own way rather
> than the supported/documented route. I know what happens when ordinary
> mortals do that with a product, don't see why it doesn't apply to Oracle
> as well.

Agreed.

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