Re: How best to get Oracle to divulge "proprietary information"
- From: Nuno Souto <dbvision@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 04 Oct 2006 01:25:20 +1000
Charles Schultz wrote,on my timestamp of 3/10/2006 11:58 PM:
Or am I barking up the wrong tree?
I think to a certain extent you are. Feature-wise,
I don't expect to ever see Oracle disclose the details
of how they do the new fast sorting in 10g, for example.
Or RAC cache. Or a number of many other "competitive
advantages". They are not under the GNU license,
so that's fair.
However, I do object very strongly to not being able to
check all bugs and their text in Metalink or even be
able to see a short description of them. After all I'm
paying for Metalink access as a service that is supposed,
among other things, to help me find solutions to problems
I might be experiencing or expect to encounter.
Or at least a note on if it is a known problem or a new
one. It used to be that way. But it appears Oracle
have lapsed back into "we're the only ones who can see
the bugs" mode, in recent years. And that's as annoying
as can be! Certainly not worth my moolah...
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Cheers
Nuno Souto
dbvision@xxxxxxxxxxxx
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