[rescue] Oracle and Sun BIOS updates. (vent)

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On Tue, Jun 29, 2010 at 12:00 PM, Gaz God <gaz.god at gmail.com> wrote:

> I think you may need to set-up a shop selling them, as its probably going
> to
> be the only sales growth area with sun geeks :D
>
> Gaz
>


My guess is that you have never purchased an Oracle product or worked with
an Oracle product.

Nobody like Oracle.  The "saving grace" is that he hates Bill Gates and
Microsoft--the enemy of my enemy is my friend-type of thing.



>
> On Tue, Jun 29, 2010 at 3:58 PM, Mark Benson <md.benson at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > Larry Ellison: F*** Him (tm)
> >
> > I need to get a t-shirt printed with that on.
> >
> > --
> > Mark Benson
> >
> > http://markbenson.org/blog
> > http://twitter.com/MDBenson
> >
> > On 29 Jun 2010, at 15:38, Barry Callahan <barryc at rjlsystems.com> wrote:
> >
> > > You know, I could understand Sun wanting you to have a paid service
> > contract
> > to be able to download the Solaris patch clusters. They provided updates
> > not
> > just for the kernel and other core  parts of the operating system but all
> > software that was distributed on the OS install media. Although, I
> grumbled
> > about their decision to charge for access to the updates when you could
> > download the install media for free.
> > >
> > > Now, we're no longer using Solaris, but we've got a few Sun Ultra 24s
> in
> > service running linux that I'd like to install the latest BIOS revision
> on.
> > Before getting bought by Oracle, you didn't have to have a paid service
> > contract to get access to BIOS and firmware updates. Guess what? Now that
> > Oracle owns them, now you do.
> > >
> > > Argh.
> > >
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