Creating instance oracle 10.2.0.4 on Windows 2008 32bit

Question

Hello,
I'm trying to install oracle database (10.2.0.3 with patch 10.2.0.4) on Windows 2008 32bit.
I first installed the Oracle software, and then started to create the instance. But the dbca gives me following error:
ora-12560:TNS:protocol adapter
and instance creations fails. Also trying to create the service via the oradim fails.
Then I found this:
Install Oracle 10.2.0.3 (Vista/2008 version) on Windows 2008 Active Directory Controller.
When trying to create the database, around 2% completion, the error ORA-12560 will occur.
This Problem does NOT reproduce on a Member server. Only the Active Directory Controller.
Cause
This is currently logged as Bug 7263061.
Solution
Currently, the only workaround is to Install the software on a Non-Controller machine.
You can try demoting the Controller machine to a Member machine.
Perform the install, create the database.
When everything is setup correctly, you can promote the machine back to a Controller.
However, be aware you may have to go through these steps whenever you create a new DB.
DIM-00019: create service error
O/S-Error: (OS 1388) A new member could not be added to a local group because
the member has the wrong account type.
WORKAROUND:
None
so workaround none? or you make that controller machine to a non-controller, but this doesn't seem to be a good solution if that server is already in production???
Is there possible another solutions to get around this?
This means that I can't install Oracle on a Windows 2008? Customers will be happy, maybe I can switch them all to Linux? ;)

Answer 1

I care about low-budget shops, too. It's one reason you won't find me extolling the virtues of (for example) solid state hard disks, which are still not cheap enough for mass deployment.
But come on! A shop that can ONLY afford one server and one Windows license? And yet they want to install Oracle?? Really??!
I think instead of banging your head against an installation brick wall, you should help your clients and customers cut their cloth according to their means. If they want to run Oracle, then they should resource accordingly. For about AU$2500 or less, they could purchase an additional, quite capable server, install Linux on it (OEL for $99 per year, or Centos (say) for absolutely nothing), and have themselves a dedicated Oracle server running perfectly fine in a mostly-Windows environment. (The OS the database runs on is irrelevant to anyone making use of the database's capabilities, after all). If they can't spring for even that sort of money, encourage them to adjust their standard to be more realistic: a cheap desktop PC can be purchased for mere hundreds of dollars, have a free OS, and have Oracle installed (unsupported) on top of that. If even that is a step to far, I'd suggest using MySQL or Postgres instead of Oracle.
So whilst I'm certain you're not the only one encountering the problems of working in low budget environments, I'd say this is going to extremes. If someone wants to run Oracle, and if they've stumped up the several thousand dollars necessary to purchase it, it seems utter madness not to come up with a few hundred dollars more to get it running on a dedicated machine. It would be like me being able to afford the Ferrari, but not the cost of the petrol to run it on!
A suggestion I made to a lawyer friend of mine recently: purchase an Asus EEE Desktop (cost: AU$499, for 1GB RAM and 120GB HDD), replace its Windows Home Os with Ubuntu, install Oracle XE (cost: $0), attach 1TB USB drive as backup mechanism (cost: AU$210). He now runs a dedicated Oracle database server for less than US$500. I wouldn't exactly recommend that sort of thing for mission-critical environments, but it will do the job he needs it to do! The point, though, is that you just have to be realistic about it, and create an environment that matches your requirements -without picking a fight from the get-go with the installer!