Quoting Orlando Andico <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On Fri, 17 Oct 2003, Rafael 'Dido' Sevilla wrote: > .. > > distro vendor. This is doable, but you won't find much help from > > Metalink if you run into problems. In my experience, this is not > > something you want to be without in an enterprise deployment! > > in my own experience, oracle support (was) pretty useless. google was our > friend in many, many ways.. > actually that is true. google was very very helpful. however, my experience with metalink was very very positive. all my dependency questions were answered almost immediately by the metalink engineers. maybe i am just lucky.
--OR-- metalink has this system is which they give preference to people with large support contracts. which we have. > > By the way, speaking of Red Hat Advanced Server, what's up with Touch > > Solutions? They've been harassing one of our major customers, saying > > that they're due "license fees". Last time I checked, almost everything > > maybe this is the next chapter in their never-ending quest for a valid > business model. according to rumor, they actually (once) believed they > could sell ONE REDHAT BOX PER WORKSTATION (a la M$) and were extremely > surprised when they discovered na di pala pwede ganun... > is it true that they are harassing your customer with licensing fees for using the freely available RedHat Linux??? this is not a good way to promote linux. it might just scare users off. ----------------------------------------------- William Emmanuel S. Yu Ateneo Campus Network Group (AteneoCNG) email : wyu at ateneo dot edu web : http://CNG.ateneo.net/cng/wyu/ phone : +63(2)4266001-4186 GPG : http://CNG.ateneo.net/cng/wyu/wyy.pgp -- Philippine Linux Users' Group (PLUG) Mailing List [EMAIL PROTECTED] (#PLUG @ irc.free.net.ph) Official Website: http://plug.linux.org.ph Searchable Archives: http://marc.free.net.ph . To leave, go to http://lists.q-linux.com/mailman/listinfo/plug . Are you a Linux newbie? To join the newbie list, go to http://lists.q-linux.com/mailman/listinfo/ph-linux-newbie
