I know that anecdotes aren't evidence, but I've seen quite a few posts on job boards up here in Vancouver, BC in recent months for level II and III Oracle Support analysts. That's quite different from the year and a half prior to midsummer 2010. One can hope that means that they're trying to staff up to meet demand, and not replacing burned-out people. :-) Regards, John P. On Thu, Nov 11, 2010 at 5:27 AM, Amaral, Rui <Rui.Amaral@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>wrote: > I agree with Peter as well with the addition that Oracle has increased > their customer based beyond the point that support can handle. The reason I > think this is that Oracle has been (or still is) on a hiring spree because > they can't keep up with demand or so I have been told (and seen elsewhere). > Someone mentioned that they have gotten too big... Maybe they are not big > enough to handle demand leading bad prioritization? > > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: Peter Hitchman [mailto:pjhoraclel@xxxxxxxxx] > Sent: Thursday, November 11, 2010 05:47 AM > To: oracle-l <oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> > Subject: Re: NO Oracle Support > > Phew, what a thread! > My experience this year has been that Oracle development are moving > too fast for Oracle support and too many things just do not work. As > an example the mutlicast requirement of the latest 11.2 release for > RAC. People were blogging about this and OSS were clearly non the > wiser as to what was going on. I guess it like lots of organisations > at the moment, support is not seen as an area to invest in. > > Regards > Pete > -- > //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l > > > > NOTICE: Confidential message which may be privileged. Unauthorized > use/disclosure prohibited. If received in error, please go to > www.td.com/legal for instructions. > AVIS : Message confidentiel dont le contenu peut être privilégié. > Utilisation/divulgation interdites sans permission. Si reçu par erreur, > prière d'aller au www.td.com/francais/avis_juridique pour des > instructions. > -- > //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l > > >