I am trying to measure the level of interest in a mailing list dedicated to
the technical specifics of running Oracle products (including Oracle Apps,
databases, and tools) on Compaq Tru64. If you don't have an interest in
running Oracle products on Tru64 UNIX, there is no need to read further.
Over the last three years, my experience with Oracle products on Compaq
Tru64 has been, at times, quite frustrating - although Oracle claims Compaq
Tru64 is a strategic platform for its products, Oracle Support has little
knowledge of the platform and Oracle development/QA seems to spend very
little time validating their software on the platform (this is
particularly true with Apps). With my organization's use of Oracle Apps,
Oracle Developer, and Oracle databases, this has made problem solving
difficult. One of the best tools I have found in this battle is the
knowledge of other Tru64/Oracle customers. This prompts me to ask if a
mailing list dedicated to this specific combination of vendors would be
beneficial to enough people to sustain a viable mailing list (since it
requires participants both to raise and address issues). It also would
seem to be a good vehicle to more quickly isolate common platform problems
so that multiple customers can raise a common issue with Oracle Support in
hopes of resolving the problem.
This list would be for all Oracle products available on the Compaq Tru64
platform. If there is sufficient interest, I would investigate how I might
facilitate the hosting of such a list. Please reply if you are interested
(both as a gauge of the usefulness of this proposal and as a prospective
subscriber to the list).
Thanks,
Tom
=================================================================
Tom Ackenhusen tackenhu_at_fnal.gov
Business Systems Technical Services
Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory Batavia, IL, USA
Received on Fri Jun 15 2001 - 04:57:29 NZST