ALI Maintenance Packs Remove Licensing Entirely
Well, Oracle’s gift keeps givin’: First, they published unlimited license keys for all ALUI products, and now, they’ve release maintenance packs for everything with all the licensing stripped out completely!
Go Oracle!
Update June 9, 2008: Sorry ladies and gents, I just spent the day trying to upgrade our dev environment here. After downloading hundreds of megabytes worth of installer packages that wouldn’t even open in Winzip, I tried again and was able to open them. Sadly, they (at least Publisher and Collab, and I assume the rest of them) still required license keys. I suspect what happened is that whovever uploaded the real updated installers didn’t FTP them as binary files (which would corrupt the files), and they rolled back to the original versions today. I’m sure it’s coming, but I was also a little disappointed in this false start…
Update June 10, 2008: OK, my fault. The link above makes it pretty clear that the delicensed products are on Oracle’s download site and not available through BEA’s download center.
