Re: Attention Mark Townsend of Oracle Corp.

dcruncher4@aim.com wrote: > In article <6528j.24116$4V6.7387@newssvr14.news.prodigy.net>, Mark Townsend > says... > >> I do work for Oracle, I am an official spokesperson for Oracle >> (http://www.oracle.com/corporate/pressroom/html/mtownsend.html). >> >> I don't read newsgroups from within Oracle because reading newsgroups at >> Oracle is not a good use of my time. Besides, I haven't been back at the >> office since this started (busy, busy, busy...) >> >> I don't send email from my home machine using my Oracle account (well, I >> do, but via a webclient VPNed back into the Oracle network). Our >> corporate security and governance guys really like this. >> >> So if you need an official clarification, that Oracle will stand behind, >> then email me at Oracle, and I will provide one. From the email server >> at Oracle so it's all clear and professional and legally supportable etc. >> >> Pretty simple really. No conspiracy. Seems the collective c.d.i. >> newsgroup brain is checked out on this one. I mean, we have had millions >> of downloads of XE, and hundreds of thousands of forum posts, and so far >> only one guy from Informix has found a problem with the wording on the >> license. Go figure. > > mind commenting on this. > > http://groups.google.com/group/comp.databases.oracle.server/browse_frm/thread/492f501ff6d00e6a/180bcd95367daba4#180bcd95367daba4 I have cc'd Mark on this so I expect he will respond. With respect to the posting it is important to remember we are seeing only one side of the issue, that of the person that posted it, and it may well be that he has misinterpreted what he was told or that there is more to the story. It, though, it turns out to the what happened I personally I hope Oracle University Turkey gets its hands slapped because they would be, in my opinion, totally out of line. -- Daniel A. Morgan University of Washington damorgan@x.washington.edu (replace x with u to respond)