Re: Netware install snag

philip_at_aleytys.pc.my (Philip Chee) wrote:
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>From: philip_at_aleytys.pc.my (Philip Chee)
>Newsgroups: comp.databases.oracle
>Subject: Re: Netware install snag
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>Date: Sat, 10 Jun 95 14:23:55 GMT
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>In article <3r60r5$4ec_at_ankh.iia.org> jstarwoo_at_haven.ios.com writes:
>>Ryan A. Cox (rcox_at_jasmine.psyber.com) wrote:
>>: Eric D. Pierce (PierceED_at_csus.edu) wrote:
>>: : I just received Oracle7.1.4 for Netware, and called Oracle
>>: : asking for 3" floppies instead of CDROM. Was told they are
>>: : not available "yet", but that the rep could possibly contact
>>: : the tech support "net group" for a work around. Probably means
>>: : that some poor person is busily working overtime copying disks
>>: : on his workstation for incredibly pissed off customers?
>>: They told me it would be $99 for a set of disks. This was about 3 days ago.
 

>>: Either way, it is shortsighted on their part to assume that all servers have
>>: a CDROM.

Absolutely. We have various servers around the campus. The Master Administrator Netware SuperGuru has a CDROM, I don't. It is a bureacratic nightmare to schedule use of the "centralized" CDROM. It is also a bureaucartic nightmare to have to go to the Procurement Department at the end of the fiscal year and request a equipment purchase in order to complete a RDBMS server upgrade before the suppport contract runs out, since we can't renew the support until we get our budget from the weenies at the legislature which takes those dickaroonies several months beyond the end of fiscal year, so I have to run unsupported for a few months. Anyone want to do a RDBMS upgrade without support?

Our total support is only $600 annual, so $99 for $5 of floppies seems way out of the friggin ballpark!

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>Well since the latest versions of Netware come on CD-ROM by default, I
>don't think it's unreasonable for Oracle to duplicate Novell's
>distribution method for it's netware product... just my 0.02›

Hey putzhead numero uno, who said we are going to upgrade the Net OS?

Oracle is full of BS. Every server comes with a floppy, not a CDROM.

What Larry and the other executives spend on haberdashery alone every month would pay for all the distribution costs of floppies for netware server customers.

Do not be brainwashed and mesmerized by the corporate tower and $500 suit mentality of Oracle's greedy business culture and internal bureacratic chaos.

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>>Pssst! Get a clue.. add the cost of a lunch date to the $99 your were
>>thinking of spending for disks and buy a CD-ROM drive instead. ;-)

Hey putzhead numero dos, come on down here and try to penetrate the twilight zone of procurement procedures and budgeting.

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>*Especially* if you are also installing Netware!

We aren't.

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>Philip
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The A-holes that buy into Oracle's customer hostile attitude make me sick.

EP Received on Tue Jun 13 1995 - 00:00:00 CEST