Their tech support is very poor now as well. Especially with the overseas support. Twice I have had one of them refuse to escalate a SR. -----Original Message----- From: oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Aaron Leonard Sent: Wednesday, February 20, 2013 7:45 PM To: hurleyjohnb@xxxxxxxxx Cc: tim@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx; tim@xxxxxxxxx; oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: Re: 12c on HPUX (Was: Oracle DBAs Needed in Kansas) As somebody who is planning a 3rd one-off patch implementation, this month alone, to address availability issues, I can say that I'm not seeing that QA has improved on Solaris. On Wednesday, February 20, 2013, John Hurley wrote: > My unfortunate opinion ... Oracle QA is not what it used to be on most > every platform including linux also. > > > Maybe it is getting better now on solaris ... dunno ... but maybe. > > Things started getting pretty shaky coming out from oracle for hpux > back in the > 9.2 days ... > > Guess I am getting old and grumpy but dang hpux and solaris both used > to be pretty well shaken out. They would even install cleanly! > > C'est la vie ... > -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l