read the license agreement carefully, software downloaded from otn is not supported. "No Technical Support Our technical support organization will not provide technical support, phone support, or updates to you for the programs licensed under this agreement." You *officially* need to order the CDs to have the supported software. They tried that line with me once - wasnt impressed On 18/04/06, Li Li <litanli@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Some people in my organization asked if the downloaded binary is the same > as the one ordered from oracle ;) > I wonder if this is a legitimate way to get software from oracle (assume > you have license)? >