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Oh, look … here comes Peter Robson again. This is a follow-up on a pub chat that I simply insisted he supply, rather than just moaning to me and his pint glass. I don’t have enough experience of XE to comment on the veracity of his claims, but here’s an unhappy user<\/p>\n
I’ve been ranting on XE with Doug Burns over the past weeks, and was finally persuaded to waste yet more time on the product with a comment here.<\/p>\n
So briefly – I downloaded and installed XE because I wanted a simple platform to do some SQL stuff on my laptop. Leave EE on my desktop. So downloaded, installed, Yes very smooth. Then tried (according to documentation) to go to the home page. No way. Tried. And tried (changing http address etc etc). Went to OTN forum. And surprised to discover no small number of other people having exactly the same problem. What was significant was that nobody replying to these problems could offer either a definitive explanation for what was going on, or a categoric solution. Lots of empirical advice (the opposite of the scientific method, viz: ‘try this, it worked for me’)<\/p>\n
I tried some of the suggested solutions, but all without success. So I got a life, stopped wasting time, junked XE, and installed SE onto my feeble laptop. Its running just fine, meets requirements, end of story. Much better SQL interface than the version on XE, incidentally.<\/p>\n
Now don’t anyone tell me that Oracle XE developers never encountered the problems that several other people and myself ran into. If they didn’t – they didn’t test properly. If they did – the situation should have been both documented and posted on OTN. Damn it – there was a pretty consistent error message flying up every time. In the immortal words of the cricket enthusiast in the film ‘The Lady Vanishes’ – ‘wasting my time’…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"