When you say goofy Eric, I think you are politely saying 'makes little to no sense without reading a WHOLE bunch of stuff!' Who has time to read this stuff? Where is the easy button?
So what I have seen from the posts you listed are: No, Oracle will only support what you can duplicate on 'real' hardware and Yes, VMWare is a partner. I remember seeing someone else post a while back, a VMWare employee, that said that VM/Oracle are business partners.
I guess I need a definitive answer for the CIO...a la: yes this is viable and wise; no, this is not recommended.
/frustrated...
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