Re: Help required - URGENT PLS
From: balu <krishna000_at_gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 15 Jan 2009 00:43:00 -0800 (PST)
Message-ID: <1387d450-a903-4dd6-8541-063d7158624b_at_p2g2000prn.googlegroups.com>
On Jan 15, 6:52 am, Charles Hooper <hooperc2..._at_yahoo.com> wrote:
> On Jan 14, 8:09 pm, Noons <wizofo..._at_gmail.com> wrote:
>
>
>
> > Charles Hooper wrote:
> > > [humor on, trying to make sense of the news article]
> > > Since you were unhappy with the speed at which Oracle support provided
> > > emergency patches to you for your "stable systems",
>
> > Where in what he quoted from me do you read that? I am not Jeff
> > Hunter.
>
> > > The inclusion of the quotes on that page
> > > seems to indicate that those individuals being quoted have cancelled
> > > their Oracle support contracts in order to save thousands of dollars a
> > > year by using a 3rd party remote DBA service.
>
> > Actually, I read it as "there are folks not happy with the support
> > they are paying for".
> > With which I tend to agree. From there to "they have actually dropped
> > and switched" is a long leap, although of course he'd love that! ;)
>
> > > Is it the case that I just misunderstood the intent of news article?
>
> > Dunno. Define "misunderstood" first?
> > (tongue firmly planted in cheek)
>
> Thanks for the conversation.
>
> You are correct that I did not read that you dropped your support
> contract in favor of a third party consulting company. I
> unintentionally (or maybe intentionally) abused your quote in the
> context of the news article to make a point of the contradictions
> present on that page - any of the quotes present on that page would
> have been sufficient. Something like this is what I was trying to
> demonstrate through humor: not being able to receive emergency patches
> fast enough does not suggest one should switch to a support system for
> which not even non-emergency patches may be provided, regardless of
> whether or not thousands of dollars may be saved. I might have less
> egg on my face if I had just stated that, rather than attempting to
> read the page as a casual user of Google who just happened to land on
> that news page might have read it.
>
> I state again, "Is it the case that I just misunderstood the intent of
> news article?"
>
> Appologies if my ironic humor didn't quite cut it.
>
> Charles Hooper
> IT Manager/Oracle DBA
> K&M Machine-Fabricating, Inc.
Date: Thu, 15 Jan 2009 00:43:00 -0800 (PST)
Message-ID: <1387d450-a903-4dd6-8541-063d7158624b_at_p2g2000prn.googlegroups.com>
On Jan 15, 6:52 am, Charles Hooper <hooperc2..._at_yahoo.com> wrote:
> On Jan 14, 8:09 pm, Noons <wizofo..._at_gmail.com> wrote:
>
>
>
> > Charles Hooper wrote:
> > > [humor on, trying to make sense of the news article]
> > > Since you were unhappy with the speed at which Oracle support provided
> > > emergency patches to you for your "stable systems",
>
> > Where in what he quoted from me do you read that? I am not Jeff
> > Hunter.
>
> > > The inclusion of the quotes on that page
> > > seems to indicate that those individuals being quoted have cancelled
> > > their Oracle support contracts in order to save thousands of dollars a
> > > year by using a 3rd party remote DBA service.
>
> > Actually, I read it as "there are folks not happy with the support
> > they are paying for".
> > With which I tend to agree. From there to "they have actually dropped
> > and switched" is a long leap, although of course he'd love that! ;)
>
> > > Is it the case that I just misunderstood the intent of news article?
>
> > Dunno. Define "misunderstood" first?
> > (tongue firmly planted in cheek)
>
> Thanks for the conversation.
>
> You are correct that I did not read that you dropped your support
> contract in favor of a third party consulting company. I
> unintentionally (or maybe intentionally) abused your quote in the
> context of the news article to make a point of the contradictions
> present on that page - any of the quotes present on that page would
> have been sufficient. Something like this is what I was trying to
> demonstrate through humor: not being able to receive emergency patches
> fast enough does not suggest one should switch to a support system for
> which not even non-emergency patches may be provided, regardless of
> whether or not thousands of dollars may be saved. I might have less
> egg on my face if I had just stated that, rather than attempting to
> read the page as a casual user of Google who just happened to land on
> that news page might have read it.
>
> I state again, "Is it the case that I just misunderstood the intent of
> news article?"
>
> Appologies if my ironic humor didn't quite cut it.
>
> Charles Hooper
> IT Manager/Oracle DBA
> K&M Machine-Fabricating, Inc.
To Mladen Gogala,
I am very glad that entire world knows about you very well.Very funny ...............
Regards
Balakrishna. Received on Thu Jan 15 2009 - 02:43:00 CST