Re: Oracle doesn't permit downloading even critical patches without contract? WTF!

Hi,

>> WTF is going on with Oracle? I have logged into SunSolve (my login still
>> works) and found that I cannot even download the critical patch update
>> packages without a service contract (which of course I don't have).
>
> This has been the case for at least half a year, if not more.

I suppose so, because although what you read on 3rd party blogs is often
more guessing than knowing, it's a fact that since about a half year I
have gotten almost no updates through smpatch, plus the maintainer of the
PCA tool also states it, plus (as mentioned above) when logging in to
SunSolve I cannot download anything.

Having bought Solaris 10 preinstalled on an Ultra24, I am in a pretty
annoying situation because while I could download a new 'personal use'
version and run an update from DVD (and continue to do so periodically in
the future, I would assume?), I'm not eager to, since I would lose my
current Solaris 'entitlement' in doing so. Not to mention that running
smpatch seems a lot less work for me.

In the online shop where they now sell OpenOffice.org support for EUR
30/yr there's also a Solaris offering for EUR 800/yr. Is this supposed to
be it?

I must say, this does not compare very well to MS-Windows, at least not in
the case that the OS came preinstalled on hardware.

Raimund



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