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Planned downtime is handled like this? It isn't hard to put up a temporary page. Just taking it down, even with notice is really poor form.

bdunbar 14y ago
At times like this I think of Lily Tomlin's Ernestine character: "We don't care. We don't have to. We're Oracle!" (I've been dealing with Oracle for a few years. It started with just database stuff, but they kept buying applications I supported, now they own Solaris ... anyway.)
- re_todd 14y ago
  I got a job where we don't deal with Oracle at all, life is so much better! I'd recommend it to anyone. Eat your veggies, exercise regularly, and work in an Oracle-free workplace .... this is the secret to happiness!
  - bdunbar 14y ago
    work in an Oracle-free workplace .... this is the secret to happiness! In Big Enterprise the alternative [1] to Oracle is Microsoft. You're darned if you do and darned if you don't. [1] Don't even mention open source. Not going to fly at BE, in my experience.
- beedogs 14y ago
  When they bought Sun, the quality of Sun service dropped to the point where I can't imagine why anyone still buys their kit. It was remarkable.
  - bdunbar 14y ago
    Sun support was remarkable. About five years ago I had a critical problem ... There I was in the data center at 3 a.m., trying to figure out why my mirrored drive server wasn't booting on it's surviving disk. I was groggy as heck, and even basic vi commands required a lot of thought. Actual thinking took more effort. The Support Engineer walked me through even the basic stuff "Okay, now 'yank-yank put' to copy that line" And a few minutes later the server booted and all was well. We're moving as quickly as possible away from Solaris, to Linux. But service quality isn't the driver - it never is. The problem is cost.
streptomycin 14y ago
especially for 3 days..
reustle 14y ago
That's what happens when Sun takes over.

bdunbar 14y ago

At times like this I think of Lily Tomlin's Ernestine character: "We don't care. We don't have to. We're Oracle!" (I've been dealing with Oracle for a few years. It started with just database stuff, but they kept buying applications I supported, now they own Solaris ... anyway.)

re_todd 14y ago
I got a job where we don't deal with Oracle at all, life is so much better! I'd recommend it to anyone. Eat your veggies, exercise regularly, and work in an Oracle-free workplace .... this is the secret to happiness!
- bdunbar 14y ago
  work in an Oracle-free workplace .... this is the secret to happiness! In Big Enterprise the alternative [1] to Oracle is Microsoft. You're darned if you do and darned if you don't. [1] Don't even mention open source. Not going to fly at BE, in my experience.
beedogs 14y ago
When they bought Sun, the quality of Sun service dropped to the point where I can't imagine why anyone still buys their kit. It was remarkable.
- bdunbar 14y ago
  Sun support was remarkable. About five years ago I had a critical problem ... There I was in the data center at 3 a.m., trying to figure out why my mirrored drive server wasn't booting on it's surviving disk. I was groggy as heck, and even basic vi commands required a lot of thought. Actual thinking took more effort. The Support Engineer walked me through even the basic stuff "Okay, now 'yank-yank put' to copy that line" And a few minutes later the server booted and all was well. We're moving as quickly as possible away from Solaris, to Linux. But service quality isn't the driver - it never is. The problem is cost.

streptomycin 14y ago

especially for 3 days..

reustle 14y ago

That's what happens when Sun takes over.