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Oracle7 Workgroup Server 7.3.2.2.0 for SPARC Solaris 2.4/2.5

From: Earl Wallace <earlw_at_news.walltech.com>
Date: 1996/10/17
Message-ID: <54791q$33r_at_ns2.walltech.com>#1/1 







I just purchased 'Oracle7 Workgroup Server 7.3.2.2.0 for SPARC Solaris
2.4/2.5'.  It's for my Sun Ultra Enterprise 1 (167Mhz) running Solaris 2.5.1.



It wouldn't install properly.  It didn't get my hostname right so the
web page links for the web server were wrong (it added an extra bit
of information to the hostname).  The initial database it created 
automatically was missing the cntrlWG73.dbf file.  There were no man pages
for the commands.  There is no printed documentation yet (that's what
Orcale said).  The web page docs installed on the SPARC don't seem
complete (not too useful actually).  The Orcale web page doesn't seem to
contain much useful information.  The new SupportLink web page isn't up
yet (at least not for this product).  My support contract appears to be
a waste of money because the tech support people can't seem to offer any
help in getting it installed and working.  There are a couple of Windows
CD's that came with the product which comes in real useful on my SPARC ;-/
Did I mention I tried the Orcale RTTS(?) dialup service but didn't have the
special keyboard needed to enter the keystrokes it wanted, so that was a 
waste of time.



I'm amazed.  I thought this was a well-supported, well-proven product, yet
it doesn't install right, little-to-no documentation, no support (yes, I paid
the billion $$$ for the support), and costs a lot.  Is an Orcale database
worth all this pain?  I'll get it working of course, but it seems that
after spending $2,000 it should have been a more pleasant experience...
Received on Thu Oct 17 1996 - 00:00:00 CEST












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