From Alan's reply, Am I correct in understanding that OID requires an oracle database for names resolution. But with respect to tnsManager, I do not think it requires a database. On Fri, Oct 23, 2009 at 7:28 PM, Guillermo Alan Bort <cicciuxdba@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Plus you get the basic memory footprint of an Oracle Database... I don't > reckon you will need much memory... but at least 200MB... > > cheers. > Alan Bort > Oracle Certified Professional -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l