The irony is that Oracle makes sure that things are complicated and buggy enough to require support. I once had to use a patch to be able to run an installer.

The irony is that Oracle makes sure that things are complicated and buggy enough to require support. I once had to use a patch to be able to run an installer. That should have been the low point of my Oracle career but no! I've also had a patch fail after it had passed all prerequisite tests and after it had been installed on an identical machine: support told me the patch could have been modified. I can't even rely on installing something in a dev environment first, because they might change the patch! I hate Oracle with a passion.