Beware of Oracle training offer from Oraknowledge

If you get an email from a certain Ed Haskins of Oraknowledge.com about specially priced Oracle CD ROM training, do not make the mistake of purchasing these CDs.
My credit card was charged on 2 Sept. I received an email to say that my order will be received within 7-10 days. One month later nothing came so I emailed to ask. No response. I sent an email a week later as a follow-up. No response. I sent an email again yesterday to Miranda and EdHaskins as well as their sales email addresses. Still no response. Interestingly Edhaskins mailbox bounced to say that his quota is over the limit (probably from the many unhappy customers who have not received their orders).
So before you part with your hard earn cash, think whether it's worth the risk with a company that has a blatant lack of customer service and an arrogant attitude. There are more unhappy customers at this site:http://www.examnotes.net/article1022425.html.

well you know what they say about special offers you receive in spam: if it looks too good to be true it probably is.
I have been receiving spam from OraKnowledge long enough to see the mailings cycle through the list of templates. About once a year they press up a load of CD-ROMs for a client who doesn't want them, so OraKnowledge has to flog them cheap. Doesn't seem like a very sound business model to me.
Cheers, APC

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64 bytes from WS2003Ora10g (192.168.12.10): icmp_seq=2 ttl=128 time=0.222 ms
64 bytes from WS2003Ora10g (192.168.12.10): icmp_seq=3 ttl=128 time=0.255 ms
64 bytes from WS2003Ora10g (192.168.12.10): icmp_seq=4 ttl=128 time=0.258 ms
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Connected to WS2003Ora10g (192.168.12.10).
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Needless to say I am no Linux expert, rather a quite inexperienced Linux-user.
So bottom line, the situation I’d like to be able to create is the following:
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•     Linux Oracle DB accessible from remote machine (running Windows 2003 server) via both TNS and java-based
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Thanks, Patrick

Hi Billy,
Thanks for your elaborate answer.
Not sure whether I can use it though, since the application using the oracle database (i.e. Informatica ILM 5.3.2) appears to have a specific need for TNS.
I thought I had a solution (not the prettiest for sure) by just copying TNSNAMES.ORA to an accessible location, change ownership to "informatica" user, have TNS_ADMIN point to it, and Bob should be my uncle. Well... he isn't!
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To provide more background, here are the env.variables:
[informatica@ilmserver ~]$ env
SSH_AGENT_PID=21054
HOSTNAME=ilmserver
DESKTOP_STARTUP_ID=
TERM=xterm
SHELL=/bin/bash
HISTSIZE=1000
GTK_RC_FILES=/etc/gtk/gtkrc:/home/informatica/.gtkrc-1.2-gnome2
WINDOWID=262nnnnn
USER=informatica
LS_COLORS=no=00:fi=00:di=00;34:ln=00;36:pi=40;33:so=00;35:bd=40;33;01:cd=40;33;01:or=01;05;37;41:mi=01;05;37;41:ex=00;32:*.cmd=00;32:*.exe=00;32:*.com=00;32:*.btm=00;32:*.bat=00;32:*.sh=00;32:*.csh=00;32:*.tar=00;31:*.tgz=00;31:*.arj=00;31:*.taz=00;31:*.lzh=00;31:*.zip=00;31:*.z=00;31:*.Z=00;31:*.gz=00;31:*.bz2=00;31:*.bz=00;31:*.tz=00;31:*.rpm=00;31:*.cpio=00;31:*.jpg=00;35:*.gif=00;35:*.bmp=00;35:*.xbm=00;35:*.xpm=00;35:*.png=00;35:*.tif=00;35:
ORACLE_SID=orcl
GNOME_KEYRING_SOCKET=/tmp/keyring-LXptz1/socket
ORACLE_HOSTNAME=ilmserver
ORACLE_BASE=/home/oracle/app/oracle
SSH_AUTH_SOCK=/tmp/ssh-CFDat21018/agent.21018
SESSION_MANAGER=local/ilmserver:/tmp/.ICE-unix/21018
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TNS_ADMIN=/var/temp
MAIL=/var/spool/mail/informatica
PATH=/usr/kerberos/bin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/X11R6/bin:/home/informatica/bin:/usr/java/jdk1.7.0/bin:/usr/sbin:/sbin:/home/oracle/app/oracle/product/11.2.0/dbhome_1/bin
DESKTOP_SESSION=default
GDM_XSERVER_LOCATION=local
INPUTRC=/etc/inputrc
PWD=/home/informatica
JAVA_HOME=/usr/java/jdk1.7.0
XMODIFIERS=@im=none
LANG=en_US.UTF-8
GDMSESSION=default
SSH_ASKPASS=/usr/libexec/openssh/gnome-ssh-askpass
SHLVL=2
HOME=/home/informatica
GNOME_DESKTOP_SESSION_ID=Default
LOGNAME=informatica
CVS_RSH=ssh
DBUS_SESSION_BUS_ADDRESS=unix:abstract=/tmp/dbus-axxxxxxxxo,guid=xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
LESSOPEN=|/usr/bin/lesspipe.sh %s
DISPLAY=:0.0
ORACLE_HOME=/home/oracle/app/oracle/product/11.2.0/dbhome_1
G_BROKEN_FILENAMES=1
COLORTERM=gnome-terminal
XAUTHORITY=/tmp/.gdmKEYS0V
Thanks, Patrick

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