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Basically, to use Oracle, you have to install Oracle. (Nearly)
Everything but the actual database itself. It's a real PIA. There are
sites around (sorry, I have deleted them as I NEVER want to install/f**k
with Oracle again!) that have nearly step-by-step instructions for
getting the bloated piece of junk to be usable on Linux. Oracle web site
has some instructions that are not very useful. 

The ORACLE_HOME variable needs to be set to point to the
machine:path/to/oracle/binaries where the real database is installed.
Plus there needs to be privileges added to the server to allow
connections from the remote clients. This is a PIA for remote access
machines on DHCP. Those need user/password access (which can conflict
with the setup for the DB itself).

Currently, the best/easiest way to connect to a remote Oracle database
is to use the java client that comes with Oracle.

The more I had to use Oracle, the more I like flat text files for
n-dimensional storage arrays :-|
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