Re: Worthless OTN tracts, and worthless OTN bennies in general...

I agree, you would think that Oracle would be embarassed by such a problem. I did acutally get 8i to dl but it took about 9 hours. I spoke with a couple of oracle employees about the problem and they told me that the problem is being worked on. You may be able to call Oracle and get what you want on CD.

"Timothy A. Anderson" <tima_at_nospam.com> wrote in message news:jbMf5.9844$9z2.335127_at_news.uswest.net...
> Installed Windows 2000. Old copy of 8 personal refused to install.
> Subscribed to OTN. Ordered developer tract for NT/2000. Did not get 8i
> personal. Tried to download from OTN site. Oracle tells me their FTP
 server
> can't handle the traffic and that I should keep trying. Tried discussion
> groups. Apparently they can't handle the discussion group traffic either,
 as
> they never load from their web site.
>
> Is there a way to order a nice cheap developer copy of 8i personal and
> actually get it? Is there a way to download it off of Oracle's site? I
 find
> it pretty funny that a company that is spending billions in advertising
 the
> fact they "power e business" can't cough up enough money to get an ftp
> server that works.
>
> Timothy A. Anderson
> tima_at_predator-software.com
>
>
>
Received on Thu Jul 27 2000 - 00:00:00 CEST