On 2015/03/18 01:00, Paolo Aglialoro wrote: > yes I know the place, in fact I am asking here among friends to avoid that > madness: one buys a box with free fw updates, then a company takeover > happens and updates+old files suddenly become something to pay for... this > is just unacceptable. > > As far as I know fewer and fewer people besides very large entities are > buying oracle stuff lately. This policy is hurting their sales a lot, way > more than their nonsense prices. Dell and HP are opening champagne bottles, > but this is hurting sparc64 platform.
btw, HP (and IBM) have the same mercenary policy. http://www.zdnet.com/article/hp-to-begin-charging-for-firmware-updates-and-service-packs-for-servers/
