Was wondering if the holiday week is still a shutdown.

Oracle representatives seem to be making a lot of noise about Oracle Cloud and it has come to a point that I am surprised when a day goes by that I don’t see an Oracle company representative on TV or online talking about the benefits of the cloud and... — read more 

racle can sell anything it damn well wants to sell. What it really needs is a personality transplant. Who really has any faith left in Larry, his co-CEOs and what is apparently a rubber stamp BoD? Oracle could come up with the next big thing in IT... — read more 

I get the urge to have a more diversified line of products, but I really don't get why Oracle is putting so much effort and resources into the Hybrid cloud, as it is a transitional solution that will be on the market until everybody goes completely... — read more 

How long has it been since we've had a month without layoffs? Unless I'm missing something, if this week ends with no RIFs, we'll get there for the first time in a while. And considering this is the Christmas week, I think we are good. Oracle has me... — read more 

No major layoffs this past week, total since 6/1/2016 remains at 20,246. In the absence of cloud revenue growth on par with real cloud companies, can only expect more layoffs, also in Dev Ops given TK departure and uncompetitive cloud offering. Enjoy... — read more 

Stock at 44 - d’em margin calls for LE’s collateral in oracle stock are coming. Pony up LE! Happy Holidays old chap!

Any thoughts on the compensation for the new role(s)? Still no formal announcement....

Are there really people who expect to receive a bonus from Oracle? If there are, how deeply your head must be stuck in a sand to think that?

https://marketrealist.com/2018/12/oracle-continues-to-reward-shareholders-with-hefty-buybacks Interesting take on this. I'm no investing wizard by any means so maybe people here know better and can educate me but this does not seem like a reward... — read more 

Here’s an article that puts into question the good fiscal quarter results that Oracle announced. All is not as it seems and for me, Oracle is still a very troubled company with a very questionable future. Definitely worth checking out... — read more 

https://www.zdnet.com/article/oracles-ellison-no-way-a-normal-person-would-move-to-aws/

Oracle’s performance is terrible, the ridiculous “cloud” numbers they reported confirm this. Dev ops is an unmitigated mess after too many years of being mismanaged by a combination of TK and LE and sales is bring continuously decimated by MH... — read more 

https://www.marketwatch.com/amp/story/guid/FBAC017A-024E-11E9-B37D-3CE90D27BEE0

Woohoo! I hope everyone got a bonus this time. Hahaha... Did you?

Flat revenues and profits, no growth. As for cloud specific numbers always very suspect. So nothing to get excited about here. With all the layoffs,’profits should have been way up, clearly things just aren’t working.

All the pessimism has been beaten today as Oracle emerges as one of the premier cloud players.

With Christmas next week and no layoffs last week (or two, can't recall if there were any the previous one,) is it safe to say that we can finally relax and celebrate in peace? I've been so stressed out this whole year that it would be nice to let go... — read more 

Microsoft was heading down a dark path and was failing repeatedly but turned themselves around and was most certainly, not a well loved company. Gates knew when to step aside and focus on other things and salvage his reputation - turn it around even... — read more 

No major layoff reported this past week. Total since 6/1/2016 remains at 20,246. Have to believe there will be significant layoffs unless Q2 shows exceptional growth in cloud revenues, which nobody expects. That plus TK’s departure could result in... — read more 

I see that analysts are predicting stagnating results for Oracle’s earning or even a slight decline in YOY results. Think that that will be just a picture painted in numbers about the condition that the company is these days. We all know that the... — read more 

After the departure of TK and now two VPs getting the boot, rumors of a major reorganization is underway. One of the VP's let go (NK) had over 16 years of service he was Vice President of Software Development, Cloud Services at Oracle. TK was... — read more 

SRs will no longer go to the regular customer facing service engineers like before and instead will go straight to Ops. Those poor saps will now face the wrath of the customers where before, they were not customer facing. CSAT scores will take a... — read more 

https://investor.oracle.com/financial-news/financial-news-details/2018/Oracle-Sets-the-Date-for-its-Second-Quarter-Fiscal-Year-2019-Earnings-Announcement/default.aspx

People have been posting about insanity in Santa Clara. What's going on there? —> best post: Santa Clara campus location has long been a time-honored tradition as former lunatics asylum Comment by By @WuBmo1A-1wbo Post ID: @WuBmo1A-2jpg @WuBmo1A-efz... — read more 

Oracle earnings: Chronic cloud concerns create crisis of confidence https://www.marketwatch.com/story/oracle-earnings-chronic-cloud-concerns-create-crisis-of-confidence-2018-12-14?siteid=yhoof2&yptr=yahoo

We are not the chosen few. Many of us wish we could have been reassigned too. Life with RB and CB is tough. Just look at our own OMC attrition rates. There are no perks here and or opportunities. We know we are next to go or be reassigned.

Tried to log into Fusion Applications. They are down AGAIN this weekend. What decade is this? Why would anyone use our apps when we can't even keep them running? We never had trouble running EBS 24/7. No wonder app revenue growth stopped soon after... — read more 

All right folks, in the spirit of the Holidays let’s see who has the best oracle cloud fraud jingle

Curious to know if the displaced SaaS CSMs who were transferred to OD and NetSuite are still going to get their bonuses for Q2?

We are hearing info that some teams in IDC are getting bonuses. Maybe not all but some people in some teams arw getting. Are these rumors or anyone has some concrete info on this.

how does Q2 look like seeing, that TK left, reorg on, Mark taking care of OCI, any new cloud strategy, to be cloud decisive and vision 2020 with only DB or cloud will remain ghost figure. your thoughts are welcome...

Well, well, well, what do you know! The two biggest losers on the tech industry, both of whom were turned down cold by the DOD b/c neither had caught up to the 20th, never mind the 21st, Century are now both suing the DOD over the cloud deal that AWS... — read more 

The Redmond, Wash.-based software giant scored highly in a range of categories, notably: Minimizing environmental impact (#1) Paying workers fairly (#2) Treating customers well (#5) Committing to ethical and diverse leadership (#5)

https://www.theregister.co.uk/AMP/2018/12/10/national_oracle_solution_write_down/

“promote sub par people to global important expert role and make it hell for people that has to find their ways around restrictions. Clueless brainless and narcissistic VPs and Directors who doesn't reward hardwork and result but rewards narcissism... — read more 

https://www.cnbc.com/2018/11/16/kurian-has-to-overcome-a-bitter-feud-between-google-and-oracle.html