XE and OFA

Why is OFA (techinique invented by Oracle) left in this version?
It is a little bit strange to see directory structure like this!

Have to say I have never liked OFA - too complicate a hierarchy for my taste, especially as many levels only have a single entry in my environment. I tend to use \oracle\[version or home identifier] as my oracle locations, e.g. d:\oracle\10.2.0, and \oradata for my data files. No doubt there are reasons why my approach is wrong, but it works for me - I am a simple being!
That said, the products free so I aint complaining.

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    Hi Anup,
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    However your comment is very helpfull.
    Regards.

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    ora.jose.ons ONLINE ONLINE on jose
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    ora.rac11.rac111.inst ONLINE ONLINE on aureliano
    ora.rac11.rac112.inst ONLINE ONLINE on jose
    ora.rac11.rac11svc.cs ONLINE ONLINE on jose
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    ora.rac11.rac11svc.rac112.srv ONLINE ONLINE on jose
    ora.s3repl.db ONLINE ONLINE on aureliano
    ora.s3repl.s3repl1.inst ONLINE ONLINE on aureliano
    ora.s3repl.s3repl2.inst ONLINE ONLINE on jose
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    Cut & paste of an ocr entry owner by oracles3, there are many
    \[DATABASE.DATABASES.s3repl\]
    ORATEXT : s3repl
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    \[DATABASE.DATABASES.s3repl\]
    ORATEXT : s3repl
    SECURITY : {USER_PERMISSION : PROCR_ALL_ACCESS, GROUP_PERMISSION : PROCR_WRITE, OTHER_PERMISSION : PROCR_READ, USER_NAME : oracle, GROUP_NAME : dba}
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    What I'm missing?
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    Hi
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