Feedback about official Oracle courses

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I've become official Oracle [url http://gplivna.blogspot.com/2007/08/new-experience-ive-completed-my-first.html]course trainer recently. It was nice experence.
However in my very first course as a trainer I've found at least one incorrectness I'd like to report. The question however is - whom to report?
Obviously this public forum is not the right place.
Unfortunately there wasn't any feedback address (except snail mail) on course materials and my course organizer also could not help. I'd prefer some faster (and easier to perform) communication methods than snail mail, for example, some e-mail address... :)
Gints Plivna
http://www.gplivna.eu

Do you have access to OU Resource Center? If yes, check the Readiness Materials > OIG for general corrections that have been sent in already.
In any case, contact me at fuzzy.greybeard at gmail.com - we have a small 'third party instructor' distribution list that I am trying to expand.
/Hans

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Can someone tell me what Oracle courses does exist, I mean, official ones or well known courses, like TOEFL or First Certificate in english.
If possible could you tell me too the duration and usual price of those courses?
Many thanks

The official Oracle courses are listed on the Oracle University website. The home page defaults (but of course) to the good ol' USA, so you'll need to switch to Spain using the choose a country dropdown in the top righthand corner.
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Require official Oracle Best Practices about PSU patches

A customer complained about the following
Your company statements are not clear...
On your web page - http://www.oracle.com/security/critical-patch-update.html
The following is stated!
Critical Patch Update
Fixes for security vulnerabilities are released in quarterly Critical Patch Updates (CPU), on dates announced a year in advance and published on the Oracle Technology Network. The patches address significant security vulnerabilities and include other fixes that are prerequisites for the security fixes included in the CPU.
The major products patched are Oracle Database Server, Oracle Application Server, Oracle Enterprise Manager, Oracle Collaboration Suite, Oracle E-Business Suite, PeopleSoft Enterprise Tools, PeopleSoft CRM, JD Edwards EnterpriseOne, JD Edwards OneWorld XE, Oracle WebLogic Suite, Oracle Communications and Primavera Product Suite.
Oracle recommends that CPUs be the primary means of applying security fixes to all affected products as they are released more frequently than patch sets and new product releases.
BENEFITS
* Maximum Security—Vulnerabilities are addressed through the CPU in order of severity. This process ensures that the most critical security holes are patched first, resulting in a better security posture for the organization.
* Lower Administration Costs—Patch updates are cumulative for many Oracle products. This ensures that the application of the latest CPU resolves all previously addressed vulnerabilities.
* Simplified Patch Management—A fixed CPU schedule takes the guesswork out of patch management. The schedule is also designed to avoid typical "blackout dates" during which customers cannot typically alter their production environments.
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* Cumulative versus one-off patches—The Oracle Database Server, Oracle Application Server, Oracle Enterprise Manager, Oracle Collaboration Suite, Oracle Communications Suite and Oracle WebLogic Suite patches are cumulative; each Critical Patch Update contains the security fixes from all previous Critical Patch Updates. In practical terms, the latest Critical Patch Update is the only one that needs to be applied if you are solely using these products, as it contains all required fixes. Fixes for other products, including Oracle E-Business Suite, PeopleSoft Enterprise Tools, PeopleSoft CRM, JD Edwards EnterpriseOne, and JD Edwards OneWorld XE are released as one-off patches, so it is necessary to refer to previous Critical Patch Update advisories to find all patches that may need to be applied.
* Prioritizing security fixes—Oracle fixes significant security vulnerabilities in severity order, regardless of who found the issue—whether the issue was found by a customer, a third party security researcher or by Oracle.
* Sequence of security fixes—Security vulnerabilities are first fixed in the current code line. This is the code being developed for a future major release of the product. The fixes are scheduled for inclusion in a future Critical Patch Update. However, fixes may be backported for inclusion in future patch sets or product releases that are released before their inclusion in a future Critical Patch Update.
* Communication policy for security fixes—Each Critical Patch Update includes an advisory. This advisory lists the products affected by the Critical Patch Update and contains a risk matrix for each affected product.
* Security alerts—Security alerts provide a notification designed to address a single bug or a small number of bugs. Security Alerts have been replaced by scheduled CPUs since January 2005. Unique or dangerous threats can still generate Security Alert email notifications through MetaLink and the Oracle Technology Network.
Nowhere in that statement is the Patch Set Update even mentioned. If Oracle intends to recommend to all customers that Patch Set Updates are the recommended means of Patching for Security and Functionality then it should be stated so here!
Please clarify!
Where can I find the current information so that I can use to Official Oracle statement as a reference for my Enterprise Practices and Standards document? The individual patch package references you are giving me do not state Oracle recommended Best Practice, they only speak to the specific patch package they describe. These do not help me in making an Enterprise statement of Practices and Standards.
I need to close the process out to capture a window of availability for Practices and Standards approval.
Do we have any Best Practice document about PSU patches available for customers?

cnawrati wrote:
A customer complained about the following
Your company statements are not clear...
On your web page - http://www.oracle.com/security/critical-patch-update.html
Who is the "your" to which you are referring?
<snip>
Nowhere in that statement is the Patch Set Update even mentioned. If Oracle intends to recommend to all customers that Patch Set Updates are the recommended means of Patching for Security and Functionality then it should be stated so here!Um. OK
Please clarify!
Of whom are you asking for a clarification?
Where can I find the current information so that I can use to Official Oracle statement as a reference for my Enterprise Practices and Standards document? The individual patch package references you Who is the "you" to which you refer?
are giving me do not state Oracle recommended Best Practice, they only speak to the specific patch package they describe. These do not help me in making an Enterprise statement of Practices and Standards.
I need to close the process out to capture a window of availability for Practices and Standards approval.
Be our guest.
Do we What do you mean "we", Kemosabi?
have any Best Practice document about PSU patches available for customers?This is a very confusing posting, but overall it looks like you are under the impression that this forum is some kind of channel for communicating back to Oracle Crop anything that happens to be on your mind about their corporate web site and/or policies and practices. Please be advised that this forum is simply a platform provided BY Oracle Corp as a peer operated user support group. No one here is responsible for anything on any Oracle web site. No one here is responsible for any content anywhere in the oracle.com domain, outside of their own personal posting on this forum. In other words, you can complain all you want about Oracle's policy, practice, and support, but "there's no one here but us chickens."

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>The book cover says "Oracle Press", meaning Official Oracle.
No -- the name does not mean that. 'Oracle Press' is a division of the McGraw-Hill publishing company that specializes in writing books for the Oracle suite of products. Oracle has close ties with the publisher and often supplies information to the authors that is not publicly available. However, Oracle is not responsible for the content of the books.
>If not, then what ARE the Official Oracle guides?
The only thing that you could call an 'Official' Oracle guide would be student guides developed by Oracle University for one of their courses. This content is supplied to attendees of the courses. The material is copyrighted and should not be available on the Web.

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Hello,
i wanted to ask you if anyone of you would pay for oracle training courses (which are about ~ 2.400 € here for ~ 5 days) on your own if your current employer refuses to pay for them and you would like to improve your chances on the job market.

[...] if your current employer refuses to pay for them
and you would like to improve your chances on the job market.I can see two sides to this situation...
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I was under the impression feedback was welcome having read the terms of use, but have just had a couple of posts removed today with the reason given that feedback should be sent elsewhere. The terms of use also describe a type of Apple employee who monitors the forum to collect feedback to pass back to the relevant group at Apple, which further gives the impression that the forum is a good place to leave feedback.
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I was just conscious that I was about to repost the same offending post, but hopefully it's ok in this forum as this is the forum where questions about inappropriate posts go, if you see what I mean. I didn't want to annoy the moderators by them having to delete the same post for the third time.
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All in all though, the reason for me starting this thread was more due to the difference, with regards to feedback, between the terms of use and the email you get when a post is removed. The email makes it very clear feedback should go elsewhere whereas the terms kind of suggest the opposite.
I agree and I think you have a good point. It should be clarified. It may take a while though. All the Apple corporate secrecy has raison d'être. Apple is a big company and moves very slowly. They just try to keep those slow movements concealed to maintain an aura of nimbleness.

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