Re: intermittent very high waits in LGWR on Linux?

From: Noons <wizofoz2k_at_yahoo.com.au>
Date: 5 Jul 2005 00:52:03 -0700
Message-ID: <1120549923.157718.47280@z14g2000cwz.googlegroups.com>

fuzzy wrote:

> Why on earth would Oracle want to spend even 1 copper creating a whole new
> set of CDs and DVDs, tossing the old ones, and bypassing [the for-revenue
> service] Metalink, for something that is [almost] two versions old?

because the vast majority of their sites are still running that version or planning to migrate to it. And if you believe otherwise, you've been listening to marketing for too long...

> Given that any shareholder-aware corporation will just pass on [all] the
> costs to the customer, why on earth anyone would consider increasing the
> price of Oracle software is unbelievable. <g>

Like it costs a bundle to plonk a piece of s/w in a server for download.
particularly when the infra-structure for that service is already in place to start with? Received on Tue Jul 05 2005 - 02:52:03 CDT