Unix for Oracle DBAs
http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/unixoracledbapr/

So it perceived enough of a demand for Oracle DBAs to know enough about a *nix OS to purchase a mini-book.
Start with the outline for that text.
Add the mini-book "Oracle DBA Checklist".
Add some sections from the mini-book on "Windows 2000 Commands Reference". Include use of utilities from the SysInternals website (like the Sale, Hart & Jesse text). Provide useful scripts that leverage the command line.
Add a security section. This may be a problem, as O'Reilly doesn't have any *recent* texts on Oracle Security. This could actually help fill a hole in their lineup. Interesting. Get Pete Finnegan as a co-author. His text on Oracle Security from SANS press is excellent as an outline, but is limited in step-by-step methodology as to howto accomplish the objectives.
Add in a section on configuring RAID 10 (skip RAID 5 entirely) volumes for direct attached storage, and mention a simple case of datafiles being stored on a single SAN mountpoint, backup sets being stored on a NAS.
Add in a section covering shared server configuration for use with VPNs (sound familiar, Jonathan? :) ).
Provide OS-specific scripts for hot backups and cloning, pruning or archived logs, including compression.
Add a section on filesystem permissions configuration, such that the local or network backup jobs cannot possibly crash an active instance by locking files, simply because it does not have the permissions to do so.

Call it "Effective System Administration for Oracle on Windows".

IMHO, enough material on administering Oracle on Windows already exists in articles, papers and presentations available via the web. The question is, would there be enough demand for a single source text to cover windows administration in detail - and not covering OEM and non-platform specific items.

I haven't attended an IOUG conference since April 2001, but at that conference an author presented on the topic of Oracle on Windows. You might find that by perusing various Oracle User groups websites that you may come across papers that cover this topic. I haven't belonged to IOUG for several years, and registration is required to access their articles.

OTN and Metalink have docs that cover some windows-specific issues, but they tend to not be comprehensive.

I did purchase the book by Hart, Sale and Jesse mentioned above. I did consider it to be too heavily into OEM, but very useful.

this subject has appeared on comp.databases.oracle .server, and one frequent poster did mention the possibility of presenting on this topic at some upcoming relatively large Oracle User Group - it may have been UKOUG. I haven't seen his presentation or paper.

Why I would want to buy such a text, is if it covered advanced topics like integrating MS Active Directory with OID (this being a frequent topic on the ORACLE-L list) in Standard Edition, not Enterprise Edition. But then its no longer catering to the beginner/intermediate audience.

If it included a step-by-step checklist for securing the operating system (e.g. applying a security template from cis.org), scripts for performing backups (exp, hot, cold, arch and rman) with compression, scripts for grooming database alert and listener logs (on a mini-CDROM, perhaps?) and OS event logs, scripted non-managed standby database management, procedures for (remote) disaster recovery of databases - it might have enough appeal to hit a decent-sized audience as an advanced administration text. The theme could be "automation of administration so that you can move on to higher valued tasks that won't be outsourced".

Ok, I'll admit that I've presented on some of those topics at several Oracle User Groups and have prepared a paper for internal consumption by my employer for Oracle 8.1.7. I haven't updated it for 9.2.

The main problem that I see is that one book can't do it all. Some basic OS administration knowledge must be presumed for the book to not become just a windows administration beginner's guide, or network administration beginner's guide. So deciding exactly what to incorporate into such a book would be difficult.

With the advent of the $5995 Oracle Standard One Edition license, there may be an increase in the demand for Oracle on Windows texts in the beginner to intermediate range. But if the text is targeted at that range, it will likely not be interesting to someone that already has Oracle DBA experience on *nix, but is now saddled with Oracle on win32 databases.

To quote Jared Still off of the ORACLE-L list, "Just learn PERL".
The most simple way to manage operating system specific issues may be to leverage a cross-platform tool to do it, and use the same tools on win32 as one would use on *nix.
If learning PERL was that easy, I should have done it already, and not struggled at the win32 command line.
But PERL won't cover everything.

Jonathan, if you do decide to publish such a text, I'd be interested in reviewing it.

Paul