Oracle as good as dead on the Mac

Yes its as contentious title but I believe it to be true.
I have asked Oracle support & sales over 20 times for information on a Mac OS X roadmap. Each time they're promised me one, after I extend our support agreement. Yah, right, like I'm gonna do that. And each time they fail to deliver, instead shuffling me through so many departments that my head spins.
OK I realize the resources required to certify Oracle for Mac. But no progress has been made in over 18 months.
- why are we still stuck on 10.3.9?
- why are we still stuck on R1 with its 1 GB SGA limit?
- why can oracle support not provide effective answers to mac problems?
If anyone has any actual info on a roadmap please post it here. Conjecture, insight, etc, need not apply. We can all take educated guesses. Mine is that Oracle is dead on the Mac. Thanks for the big tease Larry and Steve.

Once again, I agree with all the others on the value of an Oracle DB Svr (and all the other components as well) on a current version of the Mac OS.
However I have to admit more important to me is a strong set of development tools for the Mac. I too use a MacBook Pro for my development work against DB and App Servers running on Linux. This particular configuration is working very well for me.
Yet with that admission, yes, SQL Developer is a very good tool, but I still want SQL*Plus. I've been doing this work for long enough to have started without GUI's and I LIKE the command prompt. So my fail safe has been to shell into a linux account and get a SQL Plus command prompt there. And that's a decent crutch but it still isn't idea for all sorts of minor reasons.
OK.... so in summary the DB Server would be trick on our Apple platform. However at a very minimum, please provide a full array of client development tools! Oracle is doing so very much very right... please close this gap!
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