Christopher and Ivan, yes I know the place, in fact I am asking here among friends to avoid that madness: one buys a box with free fw updates, then a company takeover happens and updates+old files suddenly become something to pay for... this is just unacceptable.
As far as I know fewer and fewer people besides very large entities are buying oracle stuff lately. This policy is hurting their sales a lot, way more than their nonsense prices. Dell and HP are opening champagne bottles, but this is hurting sparc64 platform. Dunno if this same applies with Fujitsu M machines, but, anyway, they don't sport ldoms. Il 17/mar/2015 22:16 "Christopher Satterfield" <christopher1...@gmail.com> ha scritto: > > Only issue with the Oracle support portal is you need to have a support contract to actually do anything. Even though Sun had them open for all Oracle decided to lock them down. > > Unless you know someone that works somewhere that has Oracle support or a way to get around that you're pretty much out of luck.
