[Info-vax] : Welcome to lockdown - HP limiting access to patches

[Guy Peleg]

Not trying to defend HP's decision in anyway......

Oracle has the same policy. Any major Oracle release is available
for download from the Oracle web site requiring nothing other than an
email address.

All of the patches and updates are protected inside Metalink and
require username/password
and ofcourse expensive support contract.

So HP is not the first company adopting this policy.

fwiw,

Guy Peleg
Maklee Engineering
www.maklee.com