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Re:Oracle’s Aggressive Sales Tactics Are Backfiring with Cus... by tensor on Tuesday May 22, 2018 @12:18PM (#17127070)
Oracle's email marketing uses similar tactics to scammers. Several people at my company got emails that went something like:

"Hi I'm ___ and I'm the new account rep for the services you have with us...."

We don't have any services with them, so this certainly raised an eyebrow. Did someone open an account with them in our name? Did someone at my company subscribe to their services without me knowing?

Discovering this was actually a sales phishing tactic certainly cemented us never wanting to do business with their cloud services.

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Re:Oracle’s Aggressive Sales Tactics Are Backfiring with Cus... by le-mark on Tuesday May 22, 2018 @01:35PM (#17127792)
You are required to register an account with them to access JDK downloads, sql developer, their help forums etc. Its really quite a pita. It may be these accounts they're targeting?
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Re:Oracle’s Aggressive Sales Tactics Are Backfiring with Cus... by taakd on Wednesday May 23, 2018 @02:23AM (#17131791)
Why wouldn't you just get this from your distro's repos? Openjdk and the like are already there.
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Re:Oracle’s Aggressive Sales Tactics Are Backfiring with Cus... by s09dfhks on Tuesday May 22, 2018 @05:46PM (#17129684)
bugmenot has plenty of oracle logins you can use to get access to the downloads
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Re:Oracle’s Aggressive Sales Tactics Are Backfiring with Cus... by sbarre on Tuesday May 22, 2018 @02:12PM (#17128116)
This sounds a lot like pure-commission "outside sales pretending to be inside sales" teams who are tasked with casting as wide a net as possible to cold-call anyone they can to try to warm them up for a real rep.
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Re:Oracle’s Aggressive Sales Tactics Are Backfiring with Cus... by gowld on Tuesday May 22, 2018 @10:36PM (#17131114)
Hi, I'm the new account rep for the services you have with us. You have 0 services with us? I'm the account rep for all of them! Perhaps you'd like to expand your service suite?
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