And as an addendeum to that, if you hate the Flash version, try http://supporthtml.oracle.com instead. Thanks to Andrew for that one. The search for patches etc appears to be a bit more useful in that it lets you include more fields and clauses in the search. Brian chips in with the info that there's a _class_ in how best to use MOS. Yep, a class. Who's up for some certification ? Unbelievable. We can make websites our children can use, and this is the best Oracle could come up with. A support website that you require to be TAUGHT how to use properly.... And as I was just about to send this, Sean provided more useful links: For example, see my comments (and some similar ones from other people) at: http://blogs.sun.com/patch/entry/oracle_sun_patches_now_available#comments There are a few Oracle (ex-Sun?) people trying to provide assistance, in particular Gerry Haskins' blog at: http://blogs.sun.com/patch Some other links that I've also found useful: Oracle Technology Network Patching Center: http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/systems/patches/overview/overview-jsp-13975 1.html Sun system handbook: https://support.oracle.com/handbook_private/ Replacement for docs.sun.com: http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/indexes/documentation/index.html OTN "garage blog": http://blogs.sun.com/OTNGarage/ Summary of Sun software product links: http://www.oracle.com/us/sun/sun-products-map-075562.html Have a great rest-of-day guys, thanks for all the assistance/suggestions. Good to know I'm not alone in this.. If a little depressing :p A _____________________________________________ From: Andrew Williamson - Fujitsu Sent: 27 January 2011 14:37 To: Sunmanagers (sunmanagers@sunmanagers.org) Subject: downloading solaris patches - in only !!! Does anyone else remember the good-old-days, when you could just go to sunsolve and find a patch cluster for Solaris? This "My Oracle Support" is a total nightmare. Yes, I support some Oracle systems and I've registered them. The world doesn't end there - but according to MOS I should really only be interested in Oracle as a result. I can't find any simple page where I can find anything to download for Solaris. This new system is an absolute joke. Would anyone like to help me out here with a simple procedure to navigate to find the latest recommended patch cluster, or browse individual packages, that I can download? I tried sunsolve.oracle.com, which bounced me to support.oracle.com. I now have a dashboard showing me my oracle databases, patches for E-business suite, Peoplesoft, Oracle DB patchsets, patch recommendations (Oracle only), Upgrade planner, patch search (for which I can find individual patches - if I know them) and various other unhelpful things. You'd think it would be easy, wouldn't you ? A whole website, written up in flash. Newflash guys - it's AWFUL, it's SLOW, it's a resource hog and it just plain stinks. Cheers AW ______________________________________________ This email has been scanned by Netintelligence http://www.netintelligence.com/email _______________________________________________ sunmanagers mailing list sunmanagers@sunmanagers.org http://www.sunmanagers.org/mailman/listinfo/sunmanagersReceived on Thu Jan 27 10:18:21 2011
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