To: ge who wrote (18190 ) 7/16/2003 3:57:23 PM From: Lizzie Tudor Read Replies (3) | Respond to ge, you and I could not be further apart on this issue. Are you in the software business, or what exactly is your background can I ask? This is interesting to me, to be honest I would love it if the common knowledge in silicon valley didn't get out to the rest of the country or industry. But around here, everybody and I do mean everybody knows that Oracle is releasing inferior products and it has resulted in lawsuits and a lot of angst for their customers. The 11i product line is basically the release set for all apps at Oracle now, btw.Several attendees said they had received notices of about 5,000 patches that Oracle has released for 11i. The software "is not ready for prime time," said Donna Rosenstrater, an OAUG board member who works at San Jose-based electronics contract manufacturer Sanmina Corp. A lot more cleanup work is required before many users can safely go live with the new applications, she added. computerworld.com Gilbert said she has two clients that have been unsuccessfully testing 11i's payroll application while casting wary eyes at the 2001 deadline. "You can go live without a lot of things working, but not payroll," she noted. computerworld.com The glitches put the courier three months behind on its plans to deploy the suite in 12 European locations. DHL came within two days of a drop-dead Jan. 31 deadline before Oracle engineers delivered software patches that fixed the flaws, says Jeremy Young, DHL's finance business-process manager. "No software is perfect in its early release, but it took seven months to resolve these problems," Young says. informationweek.com
