Same here.  We were a mostly SUN shop (for the big, critical applications -
for everything else there are Windows servers) until Oracle bought them and
screwed us.  Since then, we have been phasing out ALL SUN hardware and
software.  Now it is mostly big Dell servers running RedHat Linux.


On Mon, Jun 9, 2014 at 11:01 AM, Skylar Thompson <skylar2 AT u.washington DOT 
edu>
wrote:

> This is exactly what we experienced when Oracle bought Sun. Except we /did/
> have support contracts for all our hardware, but Oracle kept "losing" them.
> It took us almost two years to get it all straightened out.
>
> On Mon, Jun 09, 2014 at 10:40:23AM -0400, Zoltan Forray wrote:
> > <rant on>
> > I went out looking for firmware updates for my IBM 3592E06 drives that
> live
> > in my IBM 3583 Library.  I realized I needed to go to Fix Central from
> the
> > last time I went looking (a year ago) and couldn't find them on the FTP
> > site.
> >
> > What I wasn't expecting is the need for my tape drive serial numbers.
>  Then
> > after supplying one of them, I was denied the firmware since our drives
> are
> > not under an IBM maintenance contract.
> >
> > Anybody care to share?
> > <rant off>
>
> --
> -- Skylar Thompson (skylar2 AT u.washington DOT edu)
> -- Genome Sciences Department, System Administrator
> -- Foege Building S046, (206)-685-7354
> -- University of Washington School of Medicine
>



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