Oracle's bad business practices
Date: 1996/07/29
Message-ID: <aak2.838616056_at_Isis.MsState.Edu>#1/1
I spent 2 weeks trying to install Oracle on Solaris x86 2.5.1. I was
constantly getting the same error. "Not enough disk space to install
Oracle". This was driving me crazy as I had more than 3GB "gigabytes"
of free space available. I re-installed Solaris at least a couple of
dozen times slightly changing the settings everytime but nothing helped.
Oracle people kept insisting that I was doing something wrong.
I finally decided to post on this newsgroup to see if someone else had
the same problem and a nice gentleman told me that it was a bug in the
install script where it would "Not enough disk space" error if there was
more than 2GB of free space available where Oracle was to be installed.
I have also installed the trial version of Oracle Enterprise server on NT and personal Oracle version for Windows, both of these distributions are missing important files. Now that I have Oracle running under Solaris one of the process "tcp listener" is taking up 100% of my CPU. I have already read posts from other users in this newsgroup experiencing the same problem.
I guess Oracle wants people to start pulling their hair and subscribe to their expensive tech support options to get patches. I sure didn't see any on their ftp site.
Why does Oracle want to do this to their existing and prospective customers ?
How do people trust their extrememly valuable databases with a company that cannot even write simple install scripts ? I am seriously beginning to question the quality of software that comes out of Oracle.
Atif Khan
aak2_at_ra.msstate.edu
Received on Mon Jul 29 1996 - 00:00:00 CEST