Re: Patch 9.2.07 for Linux

Quoting Mladen Gogala <gogala_at_sbcglobal.net>:

>> I don't know who's fooling who, but Oracle is using Linux users as free beta
>> testers.

and that's different from their other ports because...

>> I am really ticked off now that I've been awaken for the n-th time because of
>> the wondrous
>> software quality of Oracle 9.2.

Welcome to the "middle-of-the-night" cuppa syndrome. Isn't it nice to be "redundant" and "unnecessary"?

>> There used to be Oracle person which participated in this list,
>> Peter Sharman,
>> but he is not participating for a very long time.

He's been sick and he's also RAC development now. Which probably means he's flat out trying to manage all the "deliberate mistakes".

>> that Oracle is worth sticking with. Now, I am no longer that convinced. I
>> believe its
>> the time to start learning MySQL. Oracle will inevitably go down if it
>> continues behaving
>> like this.

Yeah but it'll take a heck of a long time and meanwhile they'll just blame dbas for the lack of support of their own product. After all, dbas are just a redundant nuisance and have always been an easy target, no?

>> What Oracle needs
>> is a dose of intelligent design.

they have that. What they need is adequate feedback to those that matter. About time "user groups" around the world pulled their "politically correct" heads off their rear orifices and started asking serious questions. Because if they don't, they'll be replaced by something else that better represents users.

• Cheers Nuno Souto from sunny Sydney -- http://www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l