"A number of Oracle's site is down for the count. This is certainly Openoffice.org, Java.net and Netbeans.org. Visitors are greeted with the error message "Error 503 - Service Unavailable. " The cause of the problems seem to be a casualty in a data center in California, which should have happened Tuesday night Norwegian time. - All the sites are down due to a catastrophic failure in the cooling system, type the Oracle engineer Marco Walther in a twitter message . The power is cut to the plant, which has now been down for about 10 hours. According to Walther, it is unclear when the error in the data center will be corrected. Project Kenai offers more detail on the matter. It is said that a nedløsning for cooling in place on Wednesday afternoon, California time. This means that the sites probably come up again until at least tomorrow. In the meantime, the downtime consequences for software, application server Glassfish. There is trouble logging into the management console because of lack of access to the Java.net, according to @ netmikey . He has written a blog post with a proposal for a configuration change that allows the problem can be circumvented."
The significant thing about this is that a major outage like this (which started yesterday) doesn't seem to have been followed with any sort of official acknowledgment by Oracle. Is that a sign of their engagement/commitment to the Java community? Or am I being oversensitive?
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[ 5.2 ms ] story [ 14.4 ms ] thread"A number of Oracle's site is down for the count. This is certainly Openoffice.org, Java.net and Netbeans.org. Visitors are greeted with the error message "Error 503 - Service Unavailable. " The cause of the problems seem to be a casualty in a data center in California, which should have happened Tuesday night Norwegian time. - All the sites are down due to a catastrophic failure in the cooling system, type the Oracle engineer Marco Walther in a twitter message . The power is cut to the plant, which has now been down for about 10 hours. According to Walther, it is unclear when the error in the data center will be corrected. Project Kenai offers more detail on the matter. It is said that a nedløsning for cooling in place on Wednesday afternoon, California time. This means that the sites probably come up again until at least tomorrow. In the meantime, the downtime consequences for software, application server Glassfish. There is trouble logging into the management console because of lack of access to the Java.net, according to @ netmikey . He has written a blog post with a proposal for a configuration change that allows the problem can be circumvented."