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

In article <aak2.844040065_at_isis.msstate.edu>, aak2_at_Ra.MsState.Edu (Atif Ahmad Khan) writes:
>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 ?

I haven't found patches for software yet, but www.oracle.co.uk do a fine job supporting UK customers - an excellent search database for bug reports for example. A shame they wreck it all by totally username/password-protecting the site (even the home page !). I've sent e-mail to the webmaster there asking if they can a) move the username/password check a level down so at least people can view a home page if nothing else and b) put patches on the site.

Oh, I got my username/password to it via the UK Oracle Response Centre (sent via snail mail with a manual about the telnet interface to it !!!!).

Richard K. Lloyd,           E-mail: rkl_at_csc.liv.ac.uk
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