Blogged about it: http://jkstill.blogspot.com/2009/11/metalink-we-barely-knew-ye.html <http://jkstill.blogspot.com/2009/11/metalink-we-barely-knew-ye.html>Feel free to add your comments for posterity. :) Jared Still Certifiable Oracle DBA and Part Time Perl Evangelist Oracle Blog: http://jkstill.blogspot.com Home Page: http://jaredstill.com On Mon, Nov 9, 2009 at 10:02 AM, Crisler, Jon <Jon.Crisler@xxxxxxx> wrote: > I don’t know how else to put this besides fiasco- this is totally > unacceptable for a company as large at Oracle. Metalink has been > effectively down for 3 days now. > > > > I have patches to download, problems to research and service requests to > update. My company spends millions of dollars a year alone for Oracle > Support. The read-only Metalink never worked, and the Oracle support phone > lines are saturated. > > > > On a scale of 1 to 10, with 1 being completely dissatisfied, and 10 being > ultra happy, I can safely say I am not in the 6-10 range. >