Archive for the ‘oracle.com’ tag
blogs.oracle.com.
As some of you will have noticed blogs.oracle.com has recently moved platform from Movable Type to Roller. This appears to be essentially the old blogs.sun.com platform. I do have some issues with it though – most notably the fact that the blog search now requires an oracle.com SSO account and doesn’t return results that it ought to. I’ve therefore knocked up a quick custom search engine for blogs.oracle.com that you can find at http://orawin.info/blog/search-oracle-blogs or on the local pages link on the right. Unlike Oracle I don’t intend this link to move – and if it does for some as yet unknown reason I’ll put a redirect in place.
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More on oracle.com
This is just a quick update (basically agreeing with Robin Moffat in the comments here and Dom Brooks here ).
One of the blogs I follow is that of the optimizer team. . They’ve recently just released quick update because their excellent white papers have moved – and er there’s no redirection in place.
Oracle, this kind of stuff sucks. Yes, there will be technical reasons behind it, but really for a technology company to be moving stuff around unannounced (and just leaving a 404 in place) isn’t good enough.
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oracle.com inaccessible
Well not really, but it is for me at the moment.
A while back I could not log onto the oracle.com website with my personal account details. I kept getting invalid/username password. I clicked the link to reset my password and got a new password. This also did not work, so I tried my work account. This too did not work. At this point I assumed that the authentication service was down (but sadly that the password reset service was up! ). I now had a new random password and sure enough the next day the password worked. I chose a new password.
I have of course now forgotten the new password, so couldn’t log on. So today I went to the password reset apex app. This is up, but not apparently processing requests. There is however an account help button at the front that takes me to an old fashioned web form where I can say what my issue is, where I encountered it and so on. I do this, press submit and … 404!
the moral of the story. Oracle.com can have parts of its authentication infrastructure up and parts down at any given time and navigating it can be “interesting”. ah well.