Re: Oracle licesing/pricing question...

Hi

I use getright , for exactly this reason. The only trouble I had was a week to download 8.1.6. The CD turned up next day <grr>,

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Niall Litchfield
Oracle DBA
Audit Commission UK
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> In article <8fjt87$mjj_at_journal.concentric.net>,

>   "gabriel" <gabriel_at_kabah.com> wrote:

> > > too much for a product I didn't know I wanted it - but downloading a

> > > 275MB file with a 3-4 Kb/sec link is not really what I call a smart

> > > move. We all know how cheap it is to install mirror sites -

 especcially


> >

> > For what it is worth, I get much faster speeds than 3-4K!  I almost

 always


> > get from about 50KBps to 120KBps (I have a 1.5 mbps DSL line), the

 slowest I


> > have gotten is 12KBps on the mad rush to get O8iR2 for Linux.

>

> Well that's the point of mirror sites. We in Europe have to live with 3-

> 4 kbs, so it would be a ggod idea to provide us with a mirror site. Not

> only have I not been able to download the 8i, but Oracle probably

> thinks I downloaded it 5-6 times (that's the numbe rof attempts I've

> made so far).

> regards,

> Ammar

>

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