Re: Access to MOS and Oracle Point Releases

From: Tim Gorman <tim_at_evdbt.com>
Date: Mon, 16 Jun 2014 15:15:22 -0600
Message-ID: <539F5E6A.1040004_at_evdbt.com>

This old post by Jeremiah Wilton gives the general idea of how to do it...

http://www.bluegecko.dk/oracle/how-i-got-access-to-my-oracle-support-mos-for-us2-67/

You may have to play around with different products than shown here, but as Andrew indicated, they're out there...

On 6/16/14, 14:38, Andrew Kerber wrote:
> I chose the latter option. Found a product for less than $5. Cant
> remember what it is at the moment, but it is like $2/year for support.
>
>
> On Mon, Jun 16, 2014 at 3:31 PM, Jeremiah Peschka
> <jeremiah_at_brentozar.com <mailto:jeremiah_at_brentozar.com>> wrote:
>
> This question is for the independents on the list, or those who
> really enjoy licensing questions.
>
> In the Microsoft world, we can buy SQL Server Developer Edition
> for about $60 US on Amazon and get access to future updates.
> Support KB articles are free on the internet.
>
> With Oracle, updates require a support contract and MOS is only
> available to customers with a support contract.
>
> As an independent consultant, I'd like to get access to both of
> these resources. After some careful searching, I've found many
> different results varying from "become a partner" to "Go to the
> Oracle store and buy the cheapest anything that you can".
>
> Independent Oracle people (or people who like to learn in their
> free time) - how do you get access to MOS and updates to Oracle?
>
> ---
> Jeremiah Peschka - Managing Director, Brent Ozar Unlimited
> MCSE: Data Platform, MVP
> Cloudera Certified Developer for Apache Hadoop
>
>
>
>
> --
> Andrew W. Kerber
>
> 'If at first you dont succeed, dont take up skydiving.'

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