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From: englhq@jetson.uh.edu
Newsgroups: comp.databases
Subject: Re: Installing and Maintaining Oracle
Message-ID: <9099.28037bea@jetson.uh.edu>
Date: 10 Apr 91 20:56:09 CDT
References: <1991Apr4.220242.17770@amd.com>
Organization: University of Houston
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In article <1991Apr4.220242.17770@amd.com>, chiu@brahms.amd.com
(Timothy Chiu) writes:
 
> I recently had the [dis]pleasure of having to install Oracle 
> as a database on a group Sun-4 machines.  From the experience
> I compiled a list of complaints, comments, etc. that I sent
> to the folks at Oracle.  To date no response.  (Not even
> an acknowledgement of receipt.)

> .....it seems to me that the product has been rushed 
> through Quality control, and that there has been a lack
> of planning in its implementation.  

Ditto my experience exactly, down to the (ignored) list of comments.
I bought into the Oracle for Macintosh product, which comes complete
with local Oracle kernel, Hyper*Sql for building HyperCard front ends,
a C precompiler, and a bundle of problems as you work through glitches
in the documentation.

I should say, in all honesty, that Oracle provides spirited assistance 
for the first thirty days, complete with a squadron of Tech helpers 
who are happy to confirm the bugs as quickly as you phone them in. 
Truly the poorest presentation of any product I have had 
the misfortune of using.
___
Duane Franklet
englhq@jetson.uh.edu