Re: Oracle Press - Dontchaluvit?

From: Karsten Farell <kfarrell_at_medimpact.com>
Date: Fri, 11 Oct 2002 19:54:32 GMT
Message-ID: <Y%Fp9.4456$iz1.197584119@newssvr14.news.prodigy.com>

Howard J. Rogers wrote:
> Oracle Press = "Beware".
>
> Regards
> HJR
>
>

I assume you mean the gray books with a red stripe? I don't even bother looking at them anymore. The people at my work thought they'd be helpful and buy a couple of them for the office. Well, I got so tired of marking changes and penciling in corrections to blatant errors or incorrect commands ... finally gave up. The older books were simply a cut/paste of the distributed Oracle doc set. Tacky.

The other Oracle Press books - the "101" series - though more basic, seem to have better proof-readers on their staff. Since both are by Osborne, you'd think they'd be similar.

For as expensive as they are, you'd think they could afford to pay for a decent, technically competent proof-reader. Sigh. Received on Fri Oct 11 2002 - 14:54:32 CDT