Re: Metalink Fiasco
- From: Thomas Roach <troach@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: martinfbrown@xxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Tue, 10 Nov 2009 20:23:32 -0500
Looks like there is an updated blog post.
http://blogs.oracle.com/Support/2009/11/my_oracle_support_-_migration.html
I think there are more issues than they are leading us onto based on what I
see when I log in.
Also, I think the decision to put this in was at a very high level, but I am
only assuming. I wonder if they knew the trouble we were going to have with
it? Was there a rollback plan?
I would be happy if they let me log into the old metalink to just search and
download patches. If they could just give us access to that until they
worked out the bugs, it would be a positive move in my opinion.
Flash has a purpose. If you want to display multimedia content on the web or
have something with pizazz, then use Flash. Someone put form over function
on this one and the usability is really bad, if usable at all. Oracle
support should have stuck with what is lightweight and works (like Oracle's
own products and tools). Flash should have been the last choice for this
kind of website.
My 2 cents...
On Tue, Nov 10, 2009 at 8:14 PM, Martin Brown <martinfbrown@xxxxxxxxxxx>wrote:
> I'm just curious.... how many of you guys and gals are felling warm and
> fuzzy about OCM these days?
>
> As for me, I don't think I'm quite ready yet....;-D.
>
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> From: jkstill@xxxxxxxxx
> Date: Tue, 10 Nov 2009 16:04:39 -0800
> Subject: Re: Metalink Fiasco
>
> To: daniel.fink@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> CC: oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>
>
> On Tue, Nov 10, 2009 at 2:56 PM, Daniel Fink
> <daniel.fink@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>wrote:
>
> he asked who took our online My Oracle Support training? When only 2 hands
> went up (in a room of 90), his response was to chastise us for not taking
> the training.
>
>
> I spent some time on the training yesterday.
>
> It is quite tedious. 'A' for effort, as it was well put together.
>
> For an experienced ML user though, a 45 minute session with 5 minutes of
> useful information is very difficult to sit through.
>
> There are some other targeted sessions that may be more useful, such as
> patch management.
>
> I have learned the most though just when navigating through the tool.
>
> For a newby, the training would be great.
>
> For someone experienced with ML, it wasn't that helpful, at least
> the couple sessions I watched.
>
> Jared Still
> Certifiable Oracle DBA and Part Time Perl Evangelist
> Oracle Blog: http://jkstill.blogspot.com
> Home Page: http://jaredstill.com
>
>
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