Re: Oracle Vs SAP Round 1

I would be curious to know if SAP could offer better quality support. =) Not to knock Oracle Support too hard, but as you all probably well know, it is not unheard of to end up with a newbie Support Analyst or run up against undocumented features and/or unpublished information.

I may be naive, but if a 3rd party can offer competitive services, would that not drive better market conditions for clients? Yes, I understand that the principle of stealing is essentially wrong, but I am purposefully wondering about competitive services.

On 3/23/07, Richard J. Goulet <rgoulet_at_kanbay.com> wrote:
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> If you've the resources, and knowledge there are ways to browse
> through parts of a web site that you "should not have access to".
> That's how hackers create their "fame". And those tools are available
> on the web especially if you know where to find them. As far as source
> code is concerned, if you know the programming environment that created
> them then de-compiling the code is a lot easier, and there isn't a
> software vendor out there that does not prohibit decompilition. What is
> probably going to be the worse of all this is the "guilt by accusation"
> that's going to occur. People buying software and/or support are going
> to see this gorilla in the closet & wonder if their getting contaminated
> software or that the support their expecting simply evaporates. I've
> seen this happen before, it took what we thought was the best product
> for the job off of the table even though the case had not yet been heard
> in court. And I doubt very seriously that this gets resolved before the
> end of the year.
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> Subject: Re: Oracle Vs SAP Round 1
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> Good question. This appears to be related to the PeopleSoft and
> JDEdwards apps. Apparently they got in using privileged client access
> to the help site ??metalink?? and downloaded stuff they shouldn't have.
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> How they got source code even through that is beyond me.
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> Sinardy Xing wrote:
> > How on earth Oracle source code can be access from out side Oracle
> > network?
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