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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 Mr.+Foogle · · Score: 3, Funny

      Hey, now.

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

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

    For small values of support.

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  3. 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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  4. 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!"