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

<[email protected]> Fri, 01 Oct 2010 08:59:03 -0600

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On Fri, 1 Oct 2010 10:07:05 -0400 (EDT), der Mouse
<[email protected]> wrote:
>> I must say, this does not compare very well to MS-Windows,
> 
> Is it supposed to?
> 
> Do we have any reason to think that Oracle considers Sun anything more
> than something to be squeezed for every immedate-term dollar it will
> yield and then the remaining dessicated husk tossed aside?
> 
      I always thought Oracle sees Sun as a way to package Oracle in this
really neat black box that you are supposed to turn it on and call them
whenever the sad face lights up. In other words, an appliance.

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