On Wed, 22 May 2002 00:15:47 -0400, Mark Townsend wrote:
> in article acf51p$p8scu$1_at_ID-82084.news.dfncis.de, Mladen Gogala at
> mgogala_at_adelphia.net wrote on 5/21/02 8:58 PM:
>
>> To make a long story short, Oracle is up to it's old tricks. Download
>> sucks and breaks down, while oracle has done everything in it's power to
>> prevent using utilities like wget. It is impossible to download even a
>> single file, even with a link as fast as my cable modem. I don't believe
>> that oracle really wants people to successfully download the software.
>> If they did, they would have provided more reliable download server.
>> Does anybody else have the same experience? May be if we write an
>> article to the ComputerWorld or some similar magazine, may bhen Oracle
>> Corp. will relent and provide a decent download server instead of this
>> extremely @#$%! one.
>
> I downloaded last night with no problems. Tonight looks like a different
> story - I'm getting connection failure errors. I'll forward your post to
> the relevant people at Oracle, in the meantime please note that Release 2
> is available on the Store from tonight.
Yes. I figugured that out. Download wil be effed and I wiill have to shell
out $50 for CDs. That is a typical oracle trick. After jokes like this
they'll be wondering why did IBM overtake them with RDBMS sales.
They put out unusable download site and then give you subtle hints about
the possibility of buying CDs. It very good for the bottom line. Someone
probably needs the latest MiG model on the front lawn. I
I've already tried 3 times today, without much luck. I could have better
used my time. If they managed to piss me off lik this and I am using
their software since versin 4 on a PC/XT (1988) and being a DBA since
5.1.22 on VAX/VMS (ior, odt, ORACLE$BI, sqlforms 2.0 and alike) imagine
how would react somebody who is only considering oracle. If I ever get
a choice of crosstraining for an IBM UDB DBA, I'll jump on it in no time at
all.
Received on Wed May 22 2002 - 16:12:45 CDT
