26 October 2006 - 04:36Symas to offer support for Oracle Directory Server?
<joke>Following in the footsteps of MySQL's response to Oracle's plan to support Red Hat's OS, at least as reported, Symas is considering offering annual support contracts for technical support of the Oracle9i Directory Services product. Of course, since the source code is not available, it will be impractical to provide fixes for defects but at least customers will have a central list of all known and reported bugs and an objective third party ( 
) to track them.
Of course, the cost of these technical support contracts will be fairly high to cover the large anticipated call volume from frustrated customers trying to deal with the high defect rate, performance and complexity problems of the Oracle software. Symas is interviewing candidates for a new Oracle support division in various places around the world in anticipation of an enthusiastic response from customers.
Jordan, a dog, said, "Even a dog knows what a dog Oracle's directory server is. Most people probably are smart enough to jump at the chance of getting someone who knows something about directories to support it."
Free licenses will be offered to all Oracle 9i Directory Services users choosing to switch to Symas's Connexitor™ Directory Services (CDS) (convenient certified,, tested, prepackaged binary distributions of OpenLDAP and other required software packages). Symas expects the cost of conversion to be substantially less than the customers' next payments on their Oracle directory software contracts.
Marty Heyman, President of Symas Corporation, said, "Of course, if we do this, we would prefer they didn't switch, we would get so much more revenue from the Oracle support contracts. But, they'd probably be happier in the long run and we always support what's right for the customer."</joke>
OK, a jokes a joke but we always offer free licenses to CDS, it's Open Source Software and licensed without cost to end users. And it is faster, simpler, and easier to use than Oracle9i DS. We'd be happy to talk to Oracle9i Directory Services users and discuss how they can save money on the software, on support, and on operational expenses by switching to CDS!
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I just accidentally deleted (and reported as spam, which it was NOT) a comment from Gavin Henry who said that maybe Oracle would grab CDS, remove our trademarks, and resell it.
Well, Gavin, they might but somehow I think we’re smaller potatoes. They could buy us for hundreds of millions less than they’re trying to buy Red Hat for, in my opinion. But they’re not calling us and they can’t play the “drive the stock price down by attacking revenues” game with us.
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