Installing Oracle on Windows 7 RC1
Windows 7 Release Candidate was publically released on May 5, 2009. This should be the final release before it goes live later this year. I downloaded it, installed it in a VM inside of VirtualBox and tried to install Oracle on it.
There is no Oracle release for Windows 7, so instead I grabbed the Windows 2008 one. The install is pretty straight forward. The only "gotcha" is that if you go to the command prompt, you need to run it as the Administrator, so that all of the Oracle commands will work (lsnrctl, dbca, netca etc…) Really there is not that much to it as it was pretty seemless. So, if you download Windows 7, then you can also download Oracle 11g and start playing with it today!
If you run into any issues, let me know and I’ll see if I can help you out.