Re: Oracle7 Workgroup Server 7.3.2.2.0 for SPARC Solaris 2.4/2.5
Date: 1996/10/18
Message-ID: <547bbt$mdi_at_vixen.cso.uiuc.edu>#1/1
earlw_at_news.walltech.com (Earl Wallace) writes:
>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...
Well, try this: Illustra's server (at 10,000 for just 2 users) generates
some funny csh scripts upon installation on our Enterprise 3000 SUN with
the same solaris version you say. The doc says the scripts are for csh,
yet they don't run without some editing. Whats the point of generating them
if they're wrong?
The doc was better though.
Michael Ortega
ortega-b_at_cs.uiuc.edu
Dept. of Computer Science
University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign
Received on Fri Oct 18 1996 - 00:00:00 CEST