Anyone here know how are they doing? Specially the ADF org since their c-appy UI is one of the reasons oracle apps are not sleek looking. I know many reasons but this would be one. And JDeveloper, is it in maintenance mode or still being developed?

is really turning into the sh**s, all the talented people are leaving, even the not so talented are sending farewell emails now. I'm going to be left with all the dumb dumb's who can't do their job. Let the T–d legacy continue and be written in stone... — read more 

Hearing Dyn got shut down finally. Anyone have confirmation on this? Are they laying off all of the staff?

IBM is now selling off complete business divisions. IBM laid off so many people over the past 5 years. Some these people ended up working at customers. Others joined partners. Some started their own IT shops. They all return the favor. Oracle is no... — read more 

If you are over 50, do you still care about your work at Oracle? Are you engaged? #gold age

Huawei on Wednesday will introduce a new AI-powered database system powered by ARM chips. An analyst called the move "the first salvo in the US-Chinese database wars." https://www.businessinsider.com/huawei-ai-powered-database-2019-5

That seems to have become the sad reality. Two of my colleagues moved to competing companies and I know of at least a few people that did the same. All of them went for better paying jobs. The sad thing is that Oracle creates good employees, but... — read more 

Been in tech since 1994. Microsoft is what it is today because It was NOT broken up after the 2001 Anti trust trial. It was allowed to continue along as an upgrade cash machine, in a somewhat bumbling fashion under salesman Ballmer, until they got... — read more 

Laid off, blah blah, bitter, blah, can't get back on my feet, blah, end of world, blah. You're welcome.

I am in Europe country and recently left ORACLE, I loved what I was doing until politics took over and our project was k--led in favour or something Don J thought we should have been doing. I started working in a bank 6 months back and we started... — read more 

Its not pretty, if you stop innovating software declines exponentially in value over time. Think about how much windows 3.1 or DOS is worth today. Who buys that? Its worth is zero. Windows 95 anyone? How about windows XP? Next question how much is... — read more 

I can’t seem to see any parts of the company that are based on real innovation. Sure there are still talented people at Oracle, but the system seems to be set up in a way that innovation is not rewarded, even more it is look at with content. What... — read more 

if you think Oracle is a technology company, then our condition is terrible, no real innovation, no vision even when provided by an acquisition with the right product, no capacity to even follow the leaders with cloud. if you think Oracle is a... — read more 

Long ago Investor's made an elaborate request/ straight lines to O'board. About the cloud revenues and targets for LMS, to make their (company) presence felt in cloud market... — read more 

.......It's a second-rate Mergers and Acquisitions shop with a very large legal and contract enforcement department.” This comment from another thread tells you all you need to know. Oracle’s procedures for incorporating and assimilating new... — read more 

It was never more obvious that the company is in a bad place, than it is at this moment. So why do they put their efforts into covering up the true state that the company is in. If more people were familiar with the truth, maybe more resources and... — read more 

I'm not challenged. At all. I feel like my job is now strictly about fixing other people's mistakes in outdated areas that should have been upgraded or completely replaced long ago. More than ever I understand people who are deciding to leave on... — read more 

Would like to know if there's any lay off news for SE hub at the end of Q4 and in the coming FY20.

Oralce, An Agile, Dynamic Company Able To Respond To Any Challenge By Laying Off Half Of Staff REDWOOD CITY—Calling his employees a lean, versatile team capable of being fired at a moment’s notice, Oracle CEO Hark Murd described his technology firm... — read more 

Are they still renting 3rd party warehousing or did they build their own centers that are staffed by Oracle? It's been said that Oracle has serious issues with data security and the cloud provisioning management has all quit to move to AWS or Google... — read more 

I recall we "pivoted to cloud" about 4 years ago and tried to force customers off onprem. It was so unsuccessful that we gave cloud credits and started shady financial cover ups to pretend we had customers buying cloud. I don't see this approach... — read more 

What’s the headcount right now and how close are we to the number that is below 100k employees? If the goal of the layoffs is to go under that number how much more people need to be cut for the company to reach the number of employees that is planned... — read more 

Well, looks like the cat is out of the bag: oracle laying off 1,600 people at R&D center in China and it made the news in mainstream media. That brings the total since 6/1-2016 to 23,686, with more to come before Q4 comes to an end. Keep looking... — read more 

The Fujitsu SPARC M12-1 features: The Fujitsu SPARC M12-1 server is designed to reduce total cost of ownership (TCO), rapidly deploy new business services, and reduce server sprawl by consolidating existing systems more cost-effectively and more... — read more 

The sale occurred on May 8. This sale was not pursuant to his 10b5-1 plan and the expiration date to sell wasn’t until July 2. Q4 results might be a little murky. Haha

Huawei is about to take on Oracle in the database market https://www.fastcompany.com/90347709/huawei-is-about-to-take-on-oracle-in-the-database-market

Many companis have bigger market and revenue such as Apple, MS... They only hired one CEO. Why Oracle need two(if not three) CEOs?

We had some early products the same way Microsoft had early Windows Mobile. When AWS came and changed the world we arrogantly sneered that we already did that, the same way that Microsoft did when the iPhone launched. By the time we realised it was... — read more 

"... the company’s head of human resources for the Asia-Pacific region announced that per orders from the U.S. headquarters, Oracle was planning to make some major changes to optimize its business structure, which would inevitably result in huge... — read more 

Lots of rumors are now circulating on a 10% RIF this summer followed by a major restructuring plan for FY20 to take Oracle to sub 100,000 employees Globally. The rumors are triangulated in ways not seen before. Business partners have been asked to... — read more 

One more senior pm on its way out. VA!

The Senior Director of Human Resources for Oracle in Canada announced on April 29th the following Global Corporate Project. I will say off the top, it is very suspicious that this restructuring is being lead by HR. After all, it is HR who are... — read more 

There is definitely a huge change is coming to EMEA. ORACLE has started pushing employees out of ORACLE proper to an ORACLE branch named Oracle Global Services, this is for all employees that are in services scope. This is going to make it easier to... — read more 

Title says it all

Anyone has any proof of harassment at OMCS? I have one director from US at OMCS and gathering proofs / mails to put all to HR.

There are whispers of another rif. Wondering if anyone has ideas of timings.

I was laid off two months ago and I already have a new job that came with a nice $10k raise. being let go turned out to be a blessing in disguise for me. Just wanted to share this and let people know that being laid off is not the end of the world... — read more 

I have been with the company for many years and haven't received a decent raise or bonus in ages. Oracle Medical insurance is going up, while Larry Ellison has billions in his pocket. Don't you think he should throw some money to his employees? We... — read more 

We (or some of us) survived, or no one can avoid the next wave come in July?