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From:Thomas D. Wilkinson Date:July 17 1999 6:37pm
Subject:Re: surviving the Slashdot effect
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How well does IBM support DB2?

> I certainly won't contest this!  Yes, Oracle Support sucks in general.  I
> have never called Oracle Support because if I can't find the answer myself
> (among the various databases for such things), then they won't be much help
> either.  Unfortunately this seems to be normal for Big Corporate Support.
> The only big software company I can recall ever getting decent support from
> was Netscape.
> 
> Oracle does have a bunch of classes and schools for just about everything
> you ever would want to know about Oracle.  While I haven't taken them
> myself, I know people who have, and they are supposed to be pretty decent.
> 
> I, too, prefer to work with developer supported software.  My opinion on
> tech support is that if the tech support people had deep knowledge of the
> product, they would be making better money doing something other than tech
> support.  For technically competent users, talking to corporate tech
> support is usually about as productive as talking to a trained monkey.
> 
> But that's just my opinion :^)
> 
> -James Rogers
>  jamesr@stripped

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