I never get those calls!!! perhaps because I always say that I have no influence whatsoever in purchase decisions... which is indeed true... and because I always work in a 1-5 people company... and because my address is 123 fake st :-P cheers. Alan Bort Oracle Certified Professional On Wed, Oct 28, 2009 at 6:42 PM, Jared Still <jkstill@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > I too received such a call a couple weeks ago. > > They were quite up front in this case, mentioning that they had > noticed I downloaded something-or-other, and making an inquiry > into whether we needed any help. > > Can't blame them really, everyone is trying to make a living. > > Or Euro, Kroner, or whatever. > > Jared Still > Certifiable Oracle DBA and Part Time Perl Evangelist > Oracle Blog: http://jkstill.blogspot.com > Home Page: http://jaredstill.com > > > > > On Wed, Oct 28, 2009 at 12:15 PM, Dba DBA <oracledbaquestions@xxxxxxxxx>wrote: > >> anyone else getting these? It must be the bad economy. I got a call from >> someone at oracle. I asked him what ticket the call was about and he gave me >> a ticket that has been closed for a month. I took a good 5 minutes before he >> basically admitted that this was a sales call from oracle consulting. >> >> At the rates that Oracle charges for consulting, I can't see this really >> working much. >> > >