Re: Oh, this is so microsoftish ...

"Sybrand Bakker" <gooiditweg_at_nospam.demon.nl> wrote in message news:tfqucvsbnvhlpetrgiv4r3j8n3rvdk5e02_at_4ax.com...

> I can. They seem to have moved to India. There will be a day when they

Ah yes: the "excellent value" Indian "professionals", with 30 years of experience on Oracle 10i and working for a mere $5/hour. "Like all pros should", says the redneck slavetrader.

And there are people who try to
make this sort of crap stick...

> In order to allow for those trained monkeys to deal with your support
> issues, they now have livechat facilities and facilities to take over
> your client PC. Brrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr....

Like, they ever will even touch
any system I take care of!

> Frankly, when you have one instance running MTS with explicit ports,
> and you have second instance with the same explicit ports (because you
> forgot to change them) and the second instance is *taking over* the
> ports, so the enduser connects to instance A and gets connected to
> instance B, I have to consider that a serious *bug*. The trained
> monkey on the other end of the line didn't, because you can allocate a
> port only once. He also addressed me with my surname only.

Lovely. Perfect example of why this "remote support" rubbish cannot work. I just wish the idiot who sold this to Oracle is still employed by them when the stuff hits the fan. And it will.

> A truly nasty experience.

Indeed...

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Nuno Souto
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