”Did you know that you should not download Oracle software from Oracle Technology Network in order to use it for production? If you do so you might not have full support!!!” This was new for me and I was very surprised when an Oracle Sales Consultant explained this to me recently. As he pointed out to me the only official place which you can use to download officially fully supported software is Oracle Edelivery !!! On this site you can download any Oracle product that is currently available to license.
I have doublechecked again about this statement and have contacted Oracle Pre-Sales in Switzerland in order to find out what is the truth.
A Pre-Sales manager in Switzerland asured me that it is not critical from where you down load and it is not relevant for support where you got the software from, OTN or edelivery. Nevertheless, there is not always the same software available on both sites.
O.K., this relativates the first statement and I can sleep more comfortable again.
This is what OTN tells us about the downloads from there:
On OTN software downloads are free, and each comes with a Development License that allows you to use full versions of the products only while developing and prototyping your applications (or for strictly self-educational purposes).
Read it carefully!
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October 31, 2007 at 10:55 pm |
Interesting. Now, can any-one do a diff and see if the files downloaded are any different. Actually, if they have an MD5SUM or whatever, that should be enough to check whether OTN downloads are ‘marked’ in anyway.
November 1, 2007 at 2:15 pm |
Thats funny I have had no problems getting support from otn software the past 10 years. Seems to me the sales rep is smoking something. Anything on otn that isnt marked not supported — is supported. Oracle Version x.x.x.x is still Oracle Version x.x.x.x no matter where you get it from (at oracle.com)
November 1, 2007 at 5:00 pm |
[...] may not be supported! Posted by Don Seiler under oracle | Tags: oracle, otn, patches | This is certainly good to know. Of course my current production and development databases were OTN [...]
November 1, 2007 at 5:55 pm |
Hi all, after I have further investigated I thought it might be a good idea to update my post on software downloads in order not to cause too much disturbance.
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Lutz
November 1, 2007 at 11:29 pm |
@gary well, the files may be different, for example I downloaded Oracle Drive for Windows on both OTN and EDelivery and the size is about different…
otn: 58,880,182 bytes
edelivery: 62 Mb
but well, it is not the same version, on otn you can download 10.2.0.0.11 and on edelivery you can download 10.2.0.0.2
Well, your consultant probably wanted to sell you media packs for 100 CHF