Re: Access to MOS and Oracle Point Releases

  • From: Andrew Kerber <andrew.kerber@xxxxxxxxx>
  • To: jeremiah@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Mon, 16 Jun 2014 15:38:52 -0500

I chose the latter option.  Found a product for less than $5.  Cant
remember what it is at the moment, but it is like $2/year for support.


On Mon, Jun 16, 2014 at 3:31 PM, Jeremiah Peschka <jeremiah@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

> This question is for the independents on the list, or those who really
> enjoy licensing questions.
>
> In the Microsoft world, we can buy SQL Server Developer Edition for about
> $60 US on Amazon and get access to future updates. Support KB articles are
> free on the internet.
>
> With Oracle, updates require a support contract and MOS is only available
> to customers with a support contract.
>
> As an independent consultant, I'd like to get access to both of these
> resources. After some careful searching, I've found many different results
> varying from "become a partner" to "Go to the Oracle store and buy the
> cheapest anything that you can".
>
> Independent Oracle people (or people who like to learn in their free time)
> - how do you get access to MOS and updates to Oracle?
>
> ---
> Jeremiah Peschka - Managing Director, Brent Ozar Unlimited
> MCSE: Data Platform, MVP
> Cloudera Certified Developer for Apache Hadoop
>



-- 
Andrew W. Kerber

'If at first you dont succeed, dont take up skydiving.'

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