RE: Suggestions for Oracle Corp.

From: Steve Adams <steve.adams_at_ixora.com.au>
Date: Sat, 12 Aug 2000 05:50:12 +1000
Message-Id: <10586.114405@fatcity.com>

Hi Patrice,

It is not blank for me. It is the sign-in page for the "Enhancement Request System".
The email address for problems with this system is mailto:PRODENH_at_us.oracle.com.

Regards,
Steve Adams

http://www.ixora.com.au/
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-----Original Message-----
From: Boivin, Patrice J [mailto:BoivinP_at_mar.dfo-mpo.gc.ca] Sent: Saturday, 12 August 2000 5:32
To: 'Steve Adams'; Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Subject: RE: Suggestions for Oracle Corp.

It's a blank page.

When I try to access it I get an Apache server blank page.

When I try to access it via Internet Explorer I get the usual Microsoft blank page.

Apache comes with OAS and iAS, maybe they dropped this page when they upgraded. (?)

Regards,
Patrice Boivin
Systems Analyst (Oracle Certified DBA)

-----Original Message-----

	From:	Steve Adams [SMTP:steve.adams_at_ixora.com.au]
	Sent:	Friday, August 11, 2000 4:21 PM
	To:	Boivin, Patrice J; Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L
	Subject:	RE: Suggestions for Oracle Corp.

	Hi Patrice,

	Have you found this URL yet?
	http://technet.oracle.com:2000/

	Regards,
	Steve Adams
	http://www.ixora.com.au/
	http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/orinternals/
	http://www.christianity.net.au/




	-----Original Message-----

	From: Boivin, Patrice J [mailto:BoivinP_at_mar.dfo-mpo.gc.ca]
	Sent: Saturday, 12 August 2000 1:48
	To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L
	Subject: Suggestions for Oracle Corp.


	Is there a place we can send suggestions to Oracle Corp. on how they
	could
	improve their products?  The company is so big, and I fear that
	suggestions
	would just dissipate into a morass.

	Nothing major, just a few annoying undocumented "features" that
should
	be
	relatively easy to fix in my opinion, and suggestions that might
improve
	their business prospects.

	Right now, I can think of the following:

	The installation process should be included in their OCP
certification
	courses.  So should upgrading.

	On NT:
	The installer should register Oracle software properly with the OS -
	just
	like most other Windows software does.  I know Microsoft will
probably
	never
	want to certify Oracle against its OS because it is a competitor,
but at
	least Oracle could aim to reach the criteria MS sets for most
Windows
	software.
	Oracle should register individual databases with the NT Performance
	Monitor.
	Not being able to implies that Oracle for NT is intended to have
only
	one
	instance per sever...  Otherwise the performance monitor is rather
	useless.
	I know there are other ways of doing PT against Oracle, I am
thinking of
	all
	those MCSEs out there who might be more impressed with Oracle if
they
	could
	understand it without much effort.  At least it would have a
"familiar
	look
	and feel".  There are over 200,000 MCSEs out there, wooing 10% more
of
	them
	will help boost sales for sure.
	Oracle should register itself properly with the Event Viewer.  I
know
	that
	the Event Viewer API is archaic, and that it's a pain, but maybe
more
	could
	be done to improve compatibility.
	I notice that in 8i lsnrctl start and lsnrctl stop work properly,
the
	changes are reflected in the Services applet.  Whoever did this
should
	get a
	medal!

	On UNIX:
	I am not sure, but sometimes specifies parameters as being "OS
	dependent",
	and when we receive the product nowhere in the documentation are
values
	listed for these parameters for our particular platform.  It would
be
	helpful if they were.

	Half seriously:
	Microsoft sells polo shirts, etc., even baseball caps (?! How many
nerds
	play baseball?  Fun for them is C++ and Quake3).  In Canada we can't
buy
	anything like that from Oracle's web site.  (The shirts, etc., not
the
	games.)
	Maybe Oracle could sell data dictionary posters (DBA_ views and V$,
X$
	views/tables) for the different versions.  Why not sell posters that
	have to
	do with the OEM, the OAS/OiS, Oracle applications.
	Why can't we download / purchase demos of the Oracle applications?
Is
	it
	because SAP doesn't offer them, therefore Oracle won't either?

	Technology Tracks
	I have a problem with the Internet Technologies technology track,
they
	only
	send the first release of each product, e.g. 8.0.4, 8.1.5.0.0.
These
	tend
	to be buggy, I would like Oracle to send updates once a year.   The
	technology tracks are a marketing tool, not just for developers.
Show
	us
	that your products work well by sending us updates whenever
significant
	minor releases are issued.

	Oracle Press
	I have an idea for yet another Oracle Press book (heh heh as if
there
	aren't
	enough already), one that would take articles / recommendations from
the
	Oracle center for excellence, package them together and publish

them.

	I am sure that more experienced DBAs and Developers will have other
	things
	to add to the list.  I have only been at this for a little more than
a
	year.

	Regards,
	Patrice Boivin
	Systems Analyst (Oracle Certified DBA)

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