Re: Metalink Fiasco

From: Jared Still <jkstill_at_gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 9 Nov 2009 12:09:50 -0800
Message-ID: <bf46380911091209q2fba12cdudd6ac737b8ecb67a_at_mail.gmail.com>



Blogged about it:
http://jkstill.blogspot.com/2009/11/metalink-we-barely-knew-ye.html

<http://jkstill.blogspot.com/2009/11/metalink-we-barely-knew-ye.html>Feel free to add your comments for posterity. :)

Jared Still
Certifiable Oracle DBA and Part Time Perl Evangelist Oracle Blog: http://jkstill.blogspot.com Home Page: http://jaredstill.com

On Mon, Nov 9, 2009 at 10:02 AM, Crisler, Jon <Jon.Crisler_at_usi.com> wrote:

> I don’t know how else to put this besides fiasco- this is totally
> unacceptable for a company as large at Oracle. Metalink has been
> effectively down for 3 days now.
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> I have patches to download, problems to research and service requests to
> update. My company spends millions of dollars a year alone for Oracle
> Support. The read-only Metalink never worked, and the Oracle support phone
> lines are saturated.
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> On a scale of 1 to 10, with 1 being completely dissatisfied, and 10 being
> ultra happy, I can safely say I am not in the 6-10 range.
>

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