It will be interesting to see how the new Metalink (touted for mid this year at UKOUG) performs...It has a look-and-feel akin to most of its new Portal based sites (eg AskTom).
Cheers Connor --- Jeremiah Wilton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, 3 Jan 2002, [EMAIL PROTECTED] > wrote: > > > Why do a large number of postings refer to > "MetaLink" as "MetaStink" > > (or "fetidstink") ? > > Oracle, a company that advertises its products as > "Unbreakable," runs > Metalink, a site that is plagued with problems of > availability, > usability, reliability and performance. During a > period in late 1998 > when they "upgraded" to "v.2" of their site, > Metalink came back up > extremely broken, then was was unavailable for a > period of months. > This outage was the beginning of a three-year > stretch of reliability > issues. > > Using Metalink, you will constantly encounter > unexpected results such > as error pages that contain the complete Oracle > error from the > database that Metalink relies on. For a while, we > were all getting > ORA-4031 from their database. Other times, an error > page will appear > that just says, "operation failed, try again." No > matter how many > times you try, it still fails. Just try finding the > right way to > report a problem with Metalink. If you get a > response from them, I > would be very surprised. > > Metalink has a history of being poorly designed, > poorly QA'd, poorly > managed and unreliable. Opening a TAR is > ridiculously tedious. > > They will have to run the site competently for some > significant length > of time before I will stop making fun of it. > > OTOH, you can get some really great information from > Metalink, with > some effort, when it is working. In the most recent > few months I have > only opened a couple TARs reporting problems with > Metalink. > > YMMV > > -- > Jeremiah Wilton > http://www.speakeasy.net/~jwilton > > -- > Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: > http://www.orafaq.com > -- > Author: Jeremiah Wilton > INET: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Fat City Network Services -- (858) 538-5051 FAX: > (858) 538-5051 > San Diego, California -- Public Internet > access / Mailing Lists > -------------------------------------------------------------------- > To REMOVE yourself from this mailing list, send an > E-Mail message > to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (note EXACT spelling of > 'ListGuru') and in > the message BODY, include a line containing: UNSUB > ORACLE-L > (or the name of mailing list you want to be removed > from). You may > also send the HELP command for other information > (like subscribing). ===== Connor McDonald http://www.oracledba.co.uk (mirrored at http://www.oradba.freeserve.co.uk) "Some days you're the pigeon, some days you're the statue" __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Everything you'll ever need on one web page from News and Sport to Email and Music Charts http://uk.my.yahoo.com -- Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.com -- Author: =?iso-8859-1?q?Connor=20McDonald?= INET: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fat City Network Services -- (858) 538-5051 FAX: (858) 538-5051 San Diego, California -- Public Internet access / Mailing Lists -------------------------------------------------------------------- To REMOVE yourself from this mailing list, send an E-Mail message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (note EXACT spelling of 'ListGuru') and in the message BODY, include a line containing: UNSUB ORACLE-L (or the name of mailing list you want to be removed from). You may also send the HELP command for other information (like subscribing).
