Oracle offers workaround to Windows boot issue in the cloud instead of fix

Oracle has come under fire for failing to fix a known issue with Windows instances on its cloud infrastructure (OCI). One user told The Register that despite the problem with boot failures on Windows hosts causing production outages, Oracle has only offered a workaround rather than a fix. Oracle published the workaround …

[williamyf]

once again hybrid cloud is the answer!

An hybrid cloud (a combo of public + private cloud on the same undelying SW with seamless mobility of workloads) is the answer.

You can do it with either OpenStack, Azure or even the open forks of Xen.

Meanwhile, the techie the article talks about is using a multicloud scheme, with all the lock-in a problems that entails. Good luck to him.

[Anonymous Coward]

Re: once again hybrid cloud is the answer!

Once again, NO cloud is the answer.

Putting your stuff on somebody else's computer is DUMB. Host it yourself.

[FIA]

Oracle, the IT industries example that people will never learn.

[druck]

I'd say Windows was the bigger problem. Migrating to an OS which doesn't require constant reboots for security patches should be the first priority, then ditching the Oracle DB extortion racket.

[spireite]

Rebuild a workaround?

Are they taking the mick?

Or do a diagnostic reboot, or a plain reboot.

These aren't workarounds either, how many times? It's just throwing spaghetti on the wall

What about when you patch your stuff? Do you live in fear of ever getting it back up?

[Roo]

Emotional Support Needed.

How strange, two products supported by multi-billion dollar companies not actually being supported by the vendors... You sure as hell can't afford to sue them into supporting their products... Could be time to look elsewhere, right ? :)