Re: Oracle's bad business practices

In article <aak2.838616056_at_Isis.MsState.Edu>,

   aak2_at_Ra.MsState.Edu (Atif Ahmad Khan) wrote:

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> 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

Welcome to the world of "Obstacle" as some of us refer to Oracle. Wait until you try using the phone support or try to enroll in a class. This is not a customer oriented organization. I am both an Informix and Oracle DBA, and it mystifies me how Oracle can treat their customers in such a fashion. As for their database itself, it is not in the same class as Informix's (compare hot backups, parallel processing, fragmentation <striping -- on Informix you can do fragmentation by the value of a field or some other algorithm -- no such control on Oracle>).

• Randy Hills.