Patch 9.2.07 for Linux
- From: Mladen Gogala <gogala@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: oracle-l <oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 23 Aug 2005 03:38:50 +0000
I have just been hit by the bug 3083560 which will be fixed in Oracle 9.2.0.7,
if
Oracle support is to be believed (and frequently, it is not). There was also a
debate
about the qualities of Linux, despite its apparent shortcomings (no streams, no
reliable printing - CUPS is a joke, tuning kernel is a black art, not supported
by
books similar to the Adrian Cockroft's, variables like like freelim, freegoal,
borrowlim and growlim don't exist and many other little things that I am
reluctant
to start explaining to Linux aficionados) in which I mentioned the qualities of
Linux.
I don't know who's fooling who, but Oracle is using Linux users as free beta
testers.
Support sucks. I received a confidential email in June, informing me that
9.2.0.7
for Linux is "packaged and almost ready to ship". The person who wrote that
email, a
member of this list, lied shamelessly. Patch was released for Solaris and
Windows, both
32-bit, and for no other platform. The patchset was released on 7/21/05. What
is
the deal with the other platforms? Is Oracle Corp. development too incompetent
to
synchronize important patchsets? Do they need us to do some QA? WTF is going on?
I am really ticked off now that I've been awaken for the n-th time because of
the wondrous
software quality of Oracle 9.2. Does anybody really know when Oracle plans to
release
this patchset? What will it take to persuade them? The quality of the software
recently
produced by the Oracle Corp. is beneath contempt, probably as a result of
outsourcing to
Elbonia. There used to be Oracle person which participated in this list, Peter
Sharman,
but he is not participating for a very long time. There are also few members of
this list
which participate as private persons, under various nicknames.
Is there anybody from Oracle to address this outrage and tell us about the
plans for making
Oracle 9.2 as reliable as beta version of 7.3 used to be?
Such haughty and condescending behavior used to be practiced by DEC. One of the
companies
that I used to work for switched to PostgresSQL (Wang Trading). At the time, I
thought
that Oracle is worth sticking with. Now, I am no longer that convinced. I
believe its
the time to start learning MySQL. Oracle will inevitably go down if it
continues behaving
like this. The mighty have fallen before. It seems to stimulate evolution. What
Oracle needs
is a dose of intelligent design.
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Mladen Gogala
http://www.mgogala.com
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