RE: White papers

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>Having said that, it's darn nice to see the whole collection in one
handy,
>accesible bucket, and it would be good if there was a similar publicly
>available page at Technet/Metalink. That way everyone could get to the
>papers they need, use Oracle's bandwidth to do it, and be reasonably
sure
>that the paper is authorized and up-to-date.

Hi Marin/Jeffrey/Chris,

I can see your all your view-points. On the one hand, there is a need to make the whole collection (or at least most of it) available in one central location. On the other, there is a need to stick to copyright (and 'what-is-right') laws and more importantly to keep the papers up-to date. The solution is to create a dynamic site that creates links to these sites and maintains these links. I do remember that a variety of sites have attempted to do this - Stewart McLaughlin's site at 'http://www.stewartmc.com/oracle' does a good job (Stu - are you there?), and so does Kevin Loney's site at 'http://www.lonyx.com'/. Kevin's site has the advantage that you can submit a listing (it is based on WebDB, which allows for easy content management btw) against a particular category, and the categorization works pretty well. The Oracle FAQ site at 'http://www.orafaq.org' also has such similar links. Organizations such as IOUG-A and OAUG and other personal websites as well have also done a good job of creating such links, so take your pick.

Now Marin has done a good job of downloading, categorizing and making available a large number of these papers, and may in the process have stepped on some copyrightable toes. If he still has (remembers) the source from where these papers came from, the best thing would then be to submit these links at Kevin's site, so it is available to all and is still within the law.

Sounds good?

John Kanagaraj
Brunei Shell Petroleum
http://www.geocities.com/john_sharmila

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