Waiting for Oracle

We got the license for our new WCMS last March, and honestly, I've been playing with a development server running on MySQL for a couple of months. But the production server will run on Oracle.

We've been waiting for the DBAs to get the Oracle instance up and running, but it hasn't happened yet (due mostly to the wonders of bureaucracy, not due to any malfeasance on the DBAs' part).

But anyway, that leaves me waiting and waiting and waiting.