for starters yes Oracle is definitely on the menu here, as it is my related to my major in college. Subsequently I needed to be able to have an oracle database running on a system at home for homework development and testing purposes. To my delight there is a Debian package for this called oracle-xe-universal easily loaded from the deb http://oss.oracle.com/debian/ unstable main non-free

repository. This enables a Linux user to use and manage a single user install for Oracle10g. Provided is a browser app called apex where you can administer your install and do DBA stuff. This is were things go terribly wrong. Surprisingly so for a company that has it’s own Linux Distribution “Unbreakable Linux” for sale. You would expect to have it all working and supported on the Linux platform adhering to open-source standards. He-las, not the case for Oracle products. For the most part the web app works. But when you try to edit or view a script it stays blank even though a script is loaded and in the directory. Scanning the forums the problem is fixed by using IE instead of Firefox or any other browser for that matter. Not so great Oracle

Linux does not heart IE, FIX IT!!! so it does support the real browsers like Chrome or Firefox and the likes. There are some way’s to get around this but they are not optimal solutions.