Oracle Restricts Access To Sun Firmware Downloads 202
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)."
Oh, good Lord. (Score:5, Funny)
Speaking as a Solaris admin of nine years, this is the best news Dell and Red Hat could ever get.
Re:Oracle will kill Sun (Score:3, 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!!
Re:Bound to Happen (Score:5, Funny)
For small values of support.
Re:If (Score:3, Funny)
If you're jacking off to pictures of 1920s film stars, is it still sex?
Re:pwned (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!
Re:Find the users... (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.
Re:Oh, good Lord. (Score:5, Funny)
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.
The Oracle Speaks (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!"
Re:The Oracle Speaks (Score:1, Funny)
Apparently Larry doesn't have enough ... (Score:3, Funny)
airplanes, yachts or mansions.
Re:Oh, good Lord. (Score:5, Funny)
Mod parent up. This is what it feels like. Except that I would phrase them as "Oracle are acting like Oracle" stories.
Re:Oh, good Lord. (Score:3, Funny)
Ah yes, Linux, the McDonalds of server operating systems.
Re:Oh, good Lord. (Score:4, Funny)
Hey, now.
That's rather harsh on McDonald's, don't you think?
Coming up next on the Pirate Bay... (Score:3, Funny)
The May 5th 2010 Sun firmware & driver megapack! Please seed after downloading!