Re: LEGALITY of purchasing Exam Materials USED

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It is not legal to sell the STS software. You can read their info at http://www.selftestsoftware.com/shop/LicenseAgreement.asp

Oracle does not say anything specifically on their site, but I find it = hard to imagine they would be willing to let you resell the books because = then people would not need to go to the classes where they make all their = $$$.

Oddly enough, the great majority of the course book content is a DIRECT = COPY of excerpts from their various documentation. The coursebooks just = have it condensed down to the bare minimum of what they want you to know = apparently and it is all in one location rather than several manuals = potentially. So maybe given the fact that is essentially a copy of free = material (the CD version at least), maybe you can sell them. I suppose you = should call Oracle and plead your case.

As far as I know, only instructors and Oracle employees can get the = coursebooks (and class participants, of course). My last instructor was = pretty helpful in explaining a lot of internal Oracle "stuff". We had an = Oracle employee in the class who wanted a book and the instructor said he = could get it since he was an employee. He just needed the part number. = Regular people like us are out of luck.

Michael Ray
Oracle DBA
TRW, Marshall, IL
217-826-3011 x2438

>>> Hannah.M.Doran_at_sb.com 11/28/00 11:42AM >>>
Hi guys, just starting a new thread as the subject has changed a bit. I'm = very
interested in the response. (and if legal, if anyone wants to sell, I'm = in the
market:>)

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