Re: Help required - URGENT PLS
From: balu <krishna000_at_gmail.com>
Date: Sun, 11 Jan 2009 22:37:34 -0800 (PST)
Message-ID: <5281f710-d9f4-4d64-8796-e5d1ad180051_at_q30g2000prq.googlegroups.com>
On Jan 12, 7:24 am, Charles Hooper <hooperc2..._at_yahoo.com> wrote:
> On Jan 11, 5:23 pm, hpuxrac <johnbhur..._at_sbcglobal.net> wrote:
>
> > Sorry Charles you have to pay oracle for support to be able to
> > "legitimately" apply patches. One of the guys who still posts here
> > quite a bit at one point was working for an organization where somehow
> > he had access to patchsets but claimed he did not have to operate
> > under the metalink support contract framework but that sounded pretty
> > shaky.
>
> > Looks like the guy famous for bleeding all over New York is trying to
> > throw some heat on Jeff Hunter and Nuno as some kind of backwards
> > publicity for his "business". As long as you can solve all your
> > problems by firing silver bullets and not using any oracle software
> > besides the base releases ... well caveat emptor.
>
> hpuxrac,
>
> Good point regarding the need to maintain a support contract to
> install patches, and to access Metalink content - it seems that the
> article I referenced in my previous reply completely missed that small
> fact when describing the merits of dismissing Oracle support in favor
> of support offered by that consulting company.
>
> On that point, I leave you with a final quote, "Oracle does not run in
> a vacuum.":http://books.google.com/books?id=Wx6OmllCfIkC&pg=PA45
>
> Charles Hooper
> IT Manager/Oracle DBA
> K&M Machine-Fabricating, Inc.
Date: Sun, 11 Jan 2009 22:37:34 -0800 (PST)
Message-ID: <5281f710-d9f4-4d64-8796-e5d1ad180051_at_q30g2000prq.googlegroups.com>
On Jan 12, 7:24 am, Charles Hooper <hooperc2..._at_yahoo.com> wrote:
> On Jan 11, 5:23 pm, hpuxrac <johnbhur..._at_sbcglobal.net> wrote:
>
> > Sorry Charles you have to pay oracle for support to be able to
> > "legitimately" apply patches. One of the guys who still posts here
> > quite a bit at one point was working for an organization where somehow
> > he had access to patchsets but claimed he did not have to operate
> > under the metalink support contract framework but that sounded pretty
> > shaky.
>
> > Looks like the guy famous for bleeding all over New York is trying to
> > throw some heat on Jeff Hunter and Nuno as some kind of backwards
> > publicity for his "business". As long as you can solve all your
> > problems by firing silver bullets and not using any oracle software
> > besides the base releases ... well caveat emptor.
>
> hpuxrac,
>
> Good point regarding the need to maintain a support contract to
> install patches, and to access Metalink content - it seems that the
> article I referenced in my previous reply completely missed that small
> fact when describing the merits of dismissing Oracle support in favor
> of support offered by that consulting company.
>
> On that point, I leave you with a final quote, "Oracle does not run in
> a vacuum.":http://books.google.com/books?id=Wx6OmllCfIkC&pg=PA45
>
> Charles Hooper
> IT Manager/Oracle DBA
> K&M Machine-Fabricating, Inc.
To Mladen Gogala,
I have seen you many times replying oracle posts in very ODD manner . I request if you think so that you are not paid by replying to this post .. please do not reply its very simple.
Regards
Balakrishna. Received on Mon Jan 12 2009 - 00:37:34 CST