Description: Oracle, Mac OS X, and open source technologies such as PHP and gqlplus make for an enjoyable, productive, and stable development environment. Here's how to set yours up.If you are a developer who works with Oracle applications and has been itching for an alternative to Windows or Linux—or if you are an experienced OS X user and are looking at basing your next project on Oracle—this article is for you. It assumes that you are comfortable working in the shell environment and have a working installation of OS X 10.3 (Panther) or 10.2 (Jaguar), including the developer tools and an administrator account.