Network Installation of Client Binaries

All,

We're setting up our Windows 7 image and are looking to standardize our Oracle 
client (where we can i.e. no conflict with a COTS app). There's push back from 
some DBA's to install the client binaries to a network drive with just the 
registry entries and environment variables stored locally on each desktop.

One roadblock to that plan is the Oracle Installer won't install to a network 
drive at all. This is forcing the desktop team to run an install using regmon 
and filemon to see what has changed in order to replicate those changes to a 
network drive location.

Are there any other companies which use this pattern? To much success or 
failure? I'm particularly interested in largish firms of 5000+ employees, but 
everyone's experience will be valued.


P.S. If you do a local install, have you made it part of the base package or is 
it distributed as a package?


TIA,
Cheers!

Mark Brady
Enterprise and Data Architect
Constellation Energy Group



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