Same here in ontario. From: John Piwowar [mailto:jpiwowar@xxxxxxxxx] Sent: Thursday, November 11, 2010 11:40 AM To: Amaral, Rui Cc: pjhoraclel@xxxxxxxxx <pjhoraclel@xxxxxxxxx>; oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx <oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Subject: Re: NO Oracle Support 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<mailto: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<mailto:pjhoraclel@xxxxxxxxx>] Sent: Thursday, November 11, 2010 05:47 AM To: oracle-l <oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx<mailto: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<http://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<http://www.td.com/francais/avis_juridique> pour des instructions. -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l