It's very difficult to imagine Oracle as a partner instead of an enemy when you see tactics like this.
And then there are the pinprick annoyances, like charging $160 for a keyboard and mouse.. ..and then there's the very helpful people on the phone from HP looking for conquest sales... On Mon, Sep 17, 2012 at 10:28 AM, Dave McGuire <[email protected]>wrote: > On 09/17/2012 09:34 AM, Sean Walmsley wrote: > > Just wanted to say "thanks" for hosting filibeto.org all these years - > > it has been an invaluable resource for Sun systems in general, and for > > our Sunrays in particular. > > > > As paying Sun and now Oracle customers (you know, the kind that Oracle > > contends don't use or need community sites), I am once again completely > > pissed off at Oracle's overbearing and community killing behaviour. This > > is the second such email I have written in a week after the > > wesolvesun.org site was shutdown earlier. > > > > If Oracle's own support site were decent such behaviour would still be > > reprehensible, but the MyOracle support site is so bad that we actively > > try to avoid using it. Perhaps this is Oracle's intention as they obtain > > revenue by forcing you to subscribe to the site, but can avoid invesing > > in it by making it completely useless. > > > > I will (again) complain to our sales representatives regarding this > > behaviour, and I'm sure I will be completely ignored for the nth time. > > This figures. I can't imagine Oracle's management team is really this > stupid, but perhaps they are. > > I've been a Sun user, admin, and developer since the Sun-2 was > current. No, I don't mean SPARCstation-2, I mean the Multibus Sun-2 > systems with Motorola 68010 CPUs running SunOS 3. I have purchased and > installed thousands (THOUSANDS!) of Sun systems across a dozen companies > I've worked for since then, and bought and sold hundreds more as a > consultant. I have been a loyal Sun customer for twenty years...and now > I'm looking at my rows of racks of glorious Sun hardware, with > performance and reliability that overgrown-video-game PCs can't touch, > and I'm facing the looming prospect of replacing them with PeeCees > running Linux. (and not Oracle's lame excuse for a "Linux distro" > either...does anyone actually run that??) > > Oracle, it's time for you to wake up. People are eating your lunch. > If the current management team is truly this incompetent, they need to > step down for the good of their company and let someone who actually > understands the industry run things. > > Thank heaven the source code for most of the important stuff is out > there so the community can do what it needs to do without Oracle's > involvement. > > If I didn't know better, I'd guess this was another Microsoft-funded > internal corporate sabotage effort like Darl McBride's torpedoing of SCO > while at the helm. > > -Dave > > -- > Dave McGuire, AK4HZ > New Kensington, PA > _______________________________________________ > SunRay-Users mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.filibeto.org/mailman/listinfo/sunray-users > -- +-----------------------------------------------------------------+ Walter R. Moore -- Sr. Systems Administrator, Eckerd College [email protected] -- http://home.eckerd.edu/~moorewr "It was glorious to see -- if your heart were iron, And you could keep from grieving at all the pain" - The Iliad (13.355) I'm on twitter: http://twitter.com/moorewreckerd ***Reminder! ITS will never ask you to e-mail your password!***
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