Re: Metalink Fiasco

  • From: Jared Still <jkstill@xxxxxxxxx>
  • To: Jon.Crisler@xxxxxxx
  • Date: Mon, 9 Nov 2009 12:09:50 -0800

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.
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>
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> 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.
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> 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.
>

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