Just received this from Oracle Support, who do they think they are!!!!!! Especially the little bit below. I don't expect this will go down well at all ""Many of our customers are using My Oracle Support and are experiencing benefits from this next-generation support platform. Since Monday November 9, 2009, some customers experienced issues with registration and access. As a reminder, in order to access My Oracle Support (https://support.oracle.com), you must login using your Single Sign-On (SSO) account for authentication purposes. This is a new requirement for accessing My Oracle Support and was not utilized for Classic MetaLink." To ensure delivery directly to your inbox please add replies@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx to your address book today. Click Here to Access My Oracle Support Update on My Oracle Support Upgrade and Classic MetaLink Retirement ATTENTION: Oracle Database, Fusion Middleware, E-Business Suite, On Demand and BEA Customers and Partners As you know, Oracle Global Customer Support announced that beginning the weekend of November 6-8, 2009, My Oracle Support was upgraded and at that same time, Classic MetaLink was retired. Many of our customers are using My Oracle Support and are experiencing benefits from this next-generation support platform. Since Monday November 9, 2009, some customers experienced issues with registration and access. As a reminder, in order to access My Oracle Support (https://support.oracle.com), you must login using your Single Sign-On (SSO) account for authentication purposes. This is a new requirement for accessing My Oracle Support and was not utilized for Classic MetaLink. If you did not verify or create an SSO account prior to the upgrade start on Friday, November 6, you will need to either verify or create your SSO account to login to My Oracle Support.Step-by-step instructions are available from the My Oracle Support – Registration FAQ (see “Re-registering When Migrating from Classic MetaLink to My Oracle Support” section). We are committed to assisting you with your support issues as promptly as possible. Please contact Global Customer Support via telephone if at any time, you are unable to use My Oracle Support for your support needs. Thank you for your patience during this transition period. Stay tuned for further My Oracle Support updates. Sincerely, Oracle Global Customer Support Chris --- On Thu, 11/12/09, Andre van Winssen <dreveewee@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: From: Andre van Winssen <dreveewee@xxxxxxxxx> Subject: RE: Metalink Fiasco To: post.ethan@xxxxxxxxx, "'oracle-l'" <oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Thursday, November 12, 2009, 10:03 PM I tried to tell them that my MOS account (which had admin privileges for our company’s csi when the system was still Metalink before last weekend) had lost the ability to create SR’s and download patches but submitting that feedback failed with: Operation could not succeed.Internal error occurred:Method 'WriteRecord' of business component 'External Service Request ORION' (integration component 'External Service Request ORION') returned the following error: "CSI has No Support, please use a valid CSI.(SBL-EXL-00151)"(SBL-EAI-04376) Should I send a letter instead? Van: oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] Namens Ethan Post Verzonden: donderdag 12 november 2009 22:01 Aan: oracle-l Onderwerp: Re: Metalink Fiasco Still having plenty of problems here, and have seen same with other employees. I just sent this via feedback form. * Says I am unauthorized to access this component when trying to download Peopletools patch for 8.49. According to my support ID for customer I am authorized to download patches. I could see the patch as of last week. * Logging in works about 75% of the time. * Getting messages about "unknown error", "io errors", "exception raised" in upper right hand corner of screen. * This comment box in "Contact Us" is way too small.