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Oracle Restricts Access To Sun Firmware Downloads

Posted by kdawson on from the where-the-bits-did-once-freely-roam dept.

boer lee writes with the news that you can expect trouble in downloading firmware updates for your Sun server if you purchased it before March 16, 2010. "In a somewhat surprising move (and without any notification to customers), Oracle shut down public access to firmware downloads. I learned this the hard way when I contacted Oracle customer service almost two weeks ago. Yes, it took 13 days for me to get access to the firmware download for systems under the standard warranty (i.e. less than a year old)."

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  1. Oh, good Lord. by David+Gerard · · Score: 5, Funny

    Speaking as a Solaris admin of nine years, this is the best news Dell and Red Hat could ever get.

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    1. Re:Oh, good Lord. by forkazoo · · Score: 5, Funny

      Speaking as a Solaris admin of nine years, this is the best news Dell and Red Hat could ever get.

      Yeah, Oracle has been so unkind to customers since the Sun acquisition that at this point, it's less like Oracle is a doctor trying to bring Sun back to life, and more like Oracle is a drug addled psychotic who filled the rotted corpse of Sun with a bunch of knives and used needles and has decided to rape it continuously until sunrise. At this point, so many would-be Sun customers have been hearing this steady drumbeat of "Oracle are acting like jackass" stories that even if they became the perfect vendor tomorrow, almost nobody would touch them with a ten foot pole.

    2. Re:Oh, good Lord. by David+Gerard · · Score: 4, Funny

      Mod parent up. This is what it feels like. Except that I would phrase them as "Oracle are acting like Oracle" stories.

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    3. Re:Oh, good Lord. by ishobo · · Score: 2, Funny

      Ah yes, Linux, the McDonalds of server operating systems.

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    4. Re:Oh, good Lord. by Mr.+Foogle · · Score: 3, Funny

      Hey, now.

      That's rather harsh on McDonald's, don't you think?

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  2. Re:Oracle will kill Sun by Mr.+Foogle · · Score: 2, Funny

    SUN's not pinin'! 'SUN's passed on! This company is no more! SUN has ceased to be! 'SUN's expired and gone to meet 'its maker! SUN's a stiff! Bereft of life, SUN rests in peace!

    If Oracle hadn't bought it SUN'd be pushing up the daisies!

    Is metabolic processes are now 'istory! SUN's off the twig! SUN's kicked the bucket, SUNs shuffled off 'is mortal coil, run down the curtain and joined the bleedin' choir invisibile!!

    THIS IS AN EX-COMPANY!!

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  3. Re:Bound to Happen by Jeng · · Score: 5, Funny

    For small values of support.

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  4. Re:If by MightyMartian · · Score: 2, Funny

    If a woman is talking and no is there to listen, is she still wrong?

    If you're jacking off to pictures of 1920s film stars, is it still sex?

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  5. Re:pwned by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    That's what you get for buying from a company that bet on open source hippie crap lol.

    That's the weakest and most transparent trolling post I've ever seen. You're giving the rest of us a bad name. On the ground and give me twenty!

  6. Re:Find the users... by Panaflex · · Score: 5, Funny

    No, they snort the noxious gases from a chasm and quack. Using the power of Oracle 13i and a huge dataset of duck calls, they are able to manage a software empire. Recently Oracle, announced the procurement of the Sun God Ra, after he defeated Osiris and left Isis searching the river for his missing uh... firmware.

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  7. The Oracle Speaks by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Funny

    At Delphi, the Oracle Larry Ellison speaks:

    Larry: "Hmmm... everybody thinks we bought Sun in a clever ploy to offer integrated solutions. That would allow us to out maneuver IBM and their crappy DB2. I know how to show them how wrong they were... I'll shoot Sun hardware in the foot! Along with strangling MySQL and putting a fatal bullet in OpenSolaris, I'll make sure anything valuable from Sun is gone forever. Then let them try to figure out why I bought it."

    Tech Analysts: "Curses, he is too clever for us!"

    1. Re:The Oracle Speaks by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

      I'd bet money that M$ paid them through some back door deal to buy Sun and kill OpenOffice. Not to mention the side benefit of getting rid of mySQL, and Solaris. Think about it. It's going to be huge blow to the OSS community. It's time for a new set of forks.

  8. Apparently Larry doesn't have enough ... by Jerry · · Score: 2, Funny

    airplanes, yachts or mansions.

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  9. Coming up next on the Pirate Bay... by GameboyRMH · · Score: 2, Funny

    The May 5th 2010 Sun firmware & driver megapack! Please seed after downloading!

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