Posted Thursday 25th September 2008 16:55 GMT
Preconfigured means Oracle still won't install correctly
The software is preinstalled because Oracle's install procedures still don't work properly all the time. My guess is the version that is preinstalled will be too out of date and will have to be deinstalled before a new installation can actually be run thus using up more money than saving anything.
Hello, I'm a DBA and this is Larry playing with taking our cheque book and not helping his users.
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