Re: Oh, this is so microsoftish ...

Telemachus wrote:

> Anyone know if Oracle India employees can apply for vacancies in Redwood ?
>
> anyway I'll get off my hobby-horse in this regard. Staying on the support
> hobby horse, though
>
> the response from Oracle in this NG is never v. good . - why ? no money in
> it, I suppose ? or corporate ban ?

Several reasons, some of which could include:

• if an Oracle employee recommended something that failed, you could sue Oracle regardless of how many disclaimers the employee had in their email;
• there could be a perception of undercutting the official support mechanism;
• Oracle Support actually monitors the OTN chat lines and responds, so there is a NGish way of asking - why ask them do add another?
• there simply are not enough Oracle personnel to write "RTFM" as often as the questions really deserve;