Why no patches available from Oracle's ftp/www server ?

aak2_at_Ra.MsState.Edu (Atif Ahmad Khan) wrote:

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>This is somewhat disturbing. Oracle knows as we all know that its
>7.1 release for Solaris x86 has some serious bugs. But why would
>they not release patches for these on their ftp or web server and
>want you to have to pay for it ?
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>Why should we be paying for their mistakes ?

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>Any ideas as to why Oracle thinks that they can do this ?

I take it you have not been in the industry for very long?

If you take out maintenance when you purchase (you did purchase it didn't you?) a complex suite of software such as Oracle Server, upgrades, patches, new versions etc are sent to you on request.

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>Atif Khan
>aak2_at_ra.msstate.edu
Received on Mon Sep 30 1996 - 00:00:00 CEST