Worth getting a support contract? (patches)
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From: Greg Menke on 1 Jun 2010 20:07 Our support contract recently lapsed so I started looking around and it sure seems Oracle is doing its best to destroy whats left of Solaris- OTOH I have quite a few Sun boxes that need patches on occasion. It looks like I have to get on the phone to some overseas sweatshop or get hooked into the Oracle spam machine to even find out what the minimum contract is so I can get patches. Before wasting the time & energy I was wondering what others' experience is wrt getting chump-change small contracts for patching out of Oracle these days. I'm pretty much resigned to doing without and moving to x86 when these Sun boxes retire, but I have some Blade 2k's and need the updated OBP firmware so I can use Type 7 keyboards- so its probably worth reasonably moderate amounts of pain and $ to get a year of patches all around for the boxes. Thx, Greg
From: coffeyp on 2 Jun 2010 09:52 On Jun 1, 8:07 pm, Greg Menke <guse...(a)comcast.net> wrote: > Our support contract recently lapsed so I started looking around and it > sure seems Oracle is doing its best to destroy whats left of Solaris- > OTOH I have quite a few Sun boxes that need patches on occasion. It > looks like I have to get on the phone to some overseas sweatshop or get > hooked into the Oracle spam machine to even find out what the minimum > contract is so I can get patches. > > Before wasting the time & energy I was wondering what others' experience > is wrt getting chump-change small contracts for patching out of Oracle > these days. > > I'm pretty much resigned to doing without and moving to x86 when these > Sun boxes retire, but I have some Blade 2k's and need the updated OBP > firmware so I can use Type 7 keyboards- so its probably worth reasonably > moderate amounts of pain and $ to get a year of patches all around for > the boxes. > > Thx, > > Greg Oracle is causing way to much pain especially with new contracts. I'm dropping everything with Oracle except the REALLY important systems and moving the rest to 3rd party specifically www.servicekeytss.com. Eventually I'm moving to HP and Dell hardware.
From: Hugo on 2 Jun 2010 14:53 On 2-Jun-2010, "coffeyp(a)gmail.com" <coffeyp(a)gmail.com> wrote: > Eventually I'm moving to HP and Dell hardware. Boring ... :P Especially if you use databases (and in particular, MySql or Oracle's) .. the Sparc hardware when configured correctly with Solaris on Sparc arch. leaves the competition in the dust ...
From: Greg Menke on 2 Jun 2010 18:40 "coffeyp(a)gmail.com" <coffeyp(a)gmail.com> writes: > Oracle is causing way to much pain especially with new contracts. I'm > dropping everything with Oracle except the REALLY important systems > and moving the rest to 3rd party specifically www.servicekeytss.com. Ug.. we do our own service, I wouldn't trust any tech I don't have a long relationship with no matter how pretty their webpages- its the patches I want. > Eventually I'm moving to HP and Dell hardware. <shudder> but, whatever works for you. Gregm
From: John D Groenveld on 2 Jun 2010 18:52
In article <86fx16z48r.fsf(a)apshai.pienet>, Greg Menke <gusenet(a)comcast.net> wrote: >Before wasting the time & energy I was wondering what others' experience >is wrt getting chump-change small contracts for patching out of Oracle >these days. I renewed my contracts just prior to Larry Ellison completing the deal of the century, but I read on the Solaris-x86 mailing list of folks successfully navigating the Oracle bureaucracy to obtain quotes for software and system support contracts. Let us know how it goes. John groenveld(a)acm.org |