For demonstration purposes and to get up and running quickly without having to spend time installing software binaries and creating databases, you could install GoldenGate on an existing virtual machine (VM). Oracle provides a number of prebuilt virtual machines. These machines contain many of their software products that are available for download from the Oracle website at http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/community/developer-vms-192663.html.

In order to run the VM, you will need to download and install Oracle VirtualBox that can be found at http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/server-storage/virtualbox/overview/index.html.

VMs can include the complete software stack from the OS to the application layer and lend themselves perfectly to development and test environments. Following a snapshot, they can be refreshed or rolled back quickly and easily to a point in time. In...