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#1 (**permalink**) 02-24-2008, 05:53 PM

Hello Fellow Oracle Users,

Is there a way to report possible Oracle bugs
to Oracle without having an Oracle license?

I am testing the free evaluation download
products from OTN, and I have been told that
in order to open an Oracle tar, I need to have a license.

Is this true?

OTN says that the products there are free, and
come with a "developing" license.
I have my OTN id, how can I get the actual
"developing" Oracle license number for
filing Oracle bugs/tars purposes?

Any info will be appreciated.

Cheers,
A. Fuentes

#2 (**permalink**) 02-24-2008, 05:53 PM

On Sun, 20 Nov 2005 06:32:29 GMT, "A. Fuentes"
<alvarofuentes@austin.rr.com> wrote:

>
>Hello Fellow Oracle Users,
>
>Is there a way to report possible Oracle bugs
>to Oracle without having an Oracle license?
>

There isn't.

>I am testing the free evaluation download
>products from OTN, and I have been told that
>in order to open an Oracle tar, I need to have a license.
>
>Is this true?

Yes this is true
>
>OTN says that the products there are free, and
>come with a "developing" license.
>I have my OTN id, how can I get the actual
>"developing" Oracle license number for
>filing Oracle bugs/tars purposes?
>

Please read the developing license before downloading. You will notice
support is explicitly *disallowed*.

>Any info will be appreciated.
>
>Cheers,
>A. Fuentes
>
>
>
--
Sybrand Bakker, Senior Oracle DBA

#3 (**permalink**) 02-24-2008, 05:53 PM

On Sun, 20 Nov 2005 06:32:29 GMT, "A. Fuentes" <alvarofuentes@austin.rr.com>
wrote:

>
>Hello Fellow Oracle Users,
>
>Is there a way to report possible Oracle bugs
>to Oracle without having an Oracle license?
>
>I am testing the free evaluation download
>products from OTN, and I have been told that
>in order to open an Oracle tar, I need to have a license.
>
>Is this true?
>
>OTN says that the products there are free, and
>come with a "developing" license.
>I have my OTN id, how can I get the actual
>"developing" Oracle license number for
>filing Oracle bugs/tars purposes?

no way

bugfixing is support, support is not for free

opening a TAR (now a SR) is support, support is not for free

you get the ORACLE software from OTN for free, so you have to take it as is

you always get what you pay for

--
Marc Blum
mailto:blumXXXSPAMXXX@marcblum.de
http://www.marcblum.de

#4 (**permalink**) 02-24-2008, 05:53 PM

> >Hello Fellow Oracle Users,
> >
> >Is there a way to report possible Oracle bugs
> >to Oracle without having an Oracle license?
> >
>
> There isn't.
>
> >I am testing the free evaluation download
> >products from OTN, and I have been told that
> >in order to open an Oracle tar, I need to have a license.
> >
> >Is this true?
>
> Yes this is true
> >
> >OTN says that the products there are free, and
> >come with a "developing" license.
> >I have my OTN id, how can I get the actual
> >"developing" Oracle license number for
> >filing Oracle bugs/tars purposes?
> >
>
> Please read the developing license before downloading. You will notice
> support is explicitly *disallowed*.

Then again, only "reporting" a bug can hardly be called "support", can it
:-)

--
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#5 (**permalink**) 02-24-2008, 05:53 PM

On Sun, 20 Nov 2005 06:32:29 +0000, A. Fuentes wrote:

>
> Hello Fellow Oracle Users,
>
> Is there a way to report possible Oracle bugs
> to Oracle without having an Oracle license?
>
> I am testing the free evaluation download
> products from OTN, and I have been told that
> in order to open an Oracle tar, I need to have a license.
>
> Is this true?

Yes it is true.

However, you can arrange for a free Trial License, duration 30 days, with
your Oracle sales representative. The Trial License permits getting a
metalink access.

Since the metalink access for the trial license is paid by the sales
organization, sales is reluctant to hand out trial licenses without a
serious opportunity for sale.

However, an economic alternative - PURCHASE the Personal Edition on a
1-year term and get support for that. Note that support access is 22% of
the perpetual license, so a 1 year term would be USD$80 (license) + USD$88
(support) and a perpetual license is USD$400 + USD$88

--
Hans Forbrich
Canada-wide Oracle training and consulting
mailto: Fuzzy.GreyBeard_at_gmail.com
*** Top posting replies guarantees I won't respond. ***

#6 (**permalink**) 02-24-2008, 05:53 PM

A. Fuentes wrote:
> Hello Fellow Oracle Users,
>
> Is there a way to report possible Oracle bugs
> to Oracle without having an Oracle license?
>
> I am testing the free evaluation download
> products from OTN, and I have been told that
> in order to open an Oracle tar, I need to have a license.
>
> Is this true?
>
> OTN says that the products there are free, and
> come with a "developing" license.
> I have my OTN id, how can I get the actual
> "developing" Oracle license number for
> filing Oracle bugs/tars purposes?
>
> Any info will be appreciated.
>
> Cheers,
> A. Fuentes

I can think of one simple way to report bugs to Oracle ... report
them here.

Many of us will check to see whether they are actual bugs and Oracle
monitors these groups. My experience, so far, is that most "bugs"
are in the expectations (lack of reading the docs) of the user and
not in Oracle's software.
--
Daniel A. Morgan
http://www.psoug.org
damorgan@x.washington.edu
(replace x with u to respond)

#7 (**permalink**) 02-24-2008, 05:54 PM

As other people have noted, if you supply specific details about
exactly what you did, and what you think the bug is, including scripts
that can be used to reproduce it, then many of the people here that (
sometimes ) answer questions might report it to oracle for you.

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