> From: "Geo." 
> "Adam Flinton"  wrote in message
> news:40313bbd$1{at}w3.nls.net...
>> Yes & no. Imagine I have an app built on Oracle on Windows. Who is
>> responsible? Me? Oracle? MS? The answer is it depends where the problem
>> is. You can't expect me to be responsible for Windows any more than it
>> would be OK to ring up Oracle & say "I knocked a pot of
water onto the
>> server & now it won't work so it must be your fault".
> Ask Glenn Meadows what he thinks. He runs a webboard made by one vendor but
> it includes SqlServer. Ask him who is responsible for the patches.
> Personally I can't imagine buying (for example) Redhat and then having to go
> to 20 different vendor websites to see if I'm currently patched. That would
> be insanity.


So if you are running Oracle on Red Hat you'd go to Red Hat to sort out any
problems you might have with Oracle?

If you were running SAP you'd look to Red Hat to sort out any SAP problems?

Adam

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