Hard to learn (Score 1)

I like to think of myself as a very technically minded person. But I recently installed Oracle 8i on my Linux (debian) server and found it very hard to use. Administration was very hard and I followed instructions in my huge Oracle 8i book but it never worked. when asking for help on the Oracle forums I did get the right answers, but just could never control it myself, with the use of the book. Simple things like shutting down and starting the Oracle server was hard. A complex and big DBMS, should be used for big and complex operations.