With the exception of a slight career detour in recent years, I pretty much worked for Sun and Oracle for my entire adult. The houses I bought, my wedding with my wife, all those diapers and baby expenses, my kids private schools....all from Sun and... — read more 

Not even Java supports Solaris anymore. https://www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/javase/downloads/jdk12-downloads-5295953.html

Increase stock price using buyback and then sell own shares...simply great https://www.gurufocus.com/news/835550/oracle-corp-orcl-ceo-mark-v-hurd-sold-646-million-of-shares

CG has been in and out of all the hubs telling managers to "seed" every active deal with ADW, whether the customer has a use case for it or not. Hmmm that sounds eerily familiar to when it was widespread that reps were "seeding cloud" into every... — read more 

Anyone know what the severance package is for US employees? I have a 1 on 1 tomorrow

What happens with your exercisable stock options after a Layoff?

Hi, does health insurance terminate the same day as the laid off day? And if you do get Cobra, does it get retroactive back to the day when your health benefit ends? Thanks.

Most public companies announce layoffs in advance; oracle does not, so T.I. Decided to do it for them. For immediate public release Having failed to generate growth in cloud revenues on par with real cloud companies and give that everybody (and their... — read more 

How big

from: https://articles.marketrealist.com/2019/03/the-90s-called-they-want-to-know-why-you-are-buying-oracle/ The 90’s Called. They Want to Know Why You Are Buying Oracle. WRITTEN BY JP GRAVITT FEATURED IN COMPANY NEWS, INSIGHTS, s Called. They Want... — read more 

Here is the deal - OCI was indeed supposed to be the future but turned out to be monumental pile of manure, combined with almost nonexistent investments in actual cloud infrastructure. Also they are paid king’s ransom and I can see how tempting it... — read more 

What are the teams that you know got laid off recently? Also, pls mention Org and QA/DEV or whatever Thanks.

Only 1 more day?And Is the stress/wait over after tomorrow or day After tomorrow? Atleast at this point of time. I know some would think, lay offs wont stop. But, I am asking only abt this FY19 layoffs that gained lot of buzz for the past few days

Oh, goody - we get an extra day of anticipation and worrying and stress as we wait to find out who will be laid off and who is safe. So nice of Oracle to be so kind and provide us with all that excitement when they could have been boring and just had... — read more 

Meetings scheduled in the AM , no idea for what?

Will there be more layoffs today? If yes, any idea on what will be hit?

I guess that break we had in layoffs was really too good to be true. I knew something like this was bound to happen - just when we relaxed a bit thinking we are safe at Oracle, they threw something like this at us. And now we are back to sleepless... — read more 

Oracle is a sales company with some software in tow - not a software company. They have given up the innovation game years ago. Their goal is to put out the bare minimum product, and then let their sales teams sell it to Enterprise executives scared... — read more 

In IDC, if you're laid off, you get a month's salary for each year you 'served' the company. Plus, salary of the notice period and any earned leaves you saved. If you were in Oracle for 10 years and some months, you'd get 10 + 2 + 1.5 months of sal... — read more 

Waiting for the layoffs this Thursday (3/21). Knew it was coming eventually, but not this quick. I decided to ride it out because I'm lazy and I like getting paid to do jack. Already have interviews lined up with TC higher than what I was getting, so... — read more 

The guy who hired me scheduled a meeting one on one what could it be about ?

So remember back last year when TK left, reportedly because he wanted Oracle products to run on other public clouds (that work)? Well, maybe good old LE actually IS making something happen. A "bet the company" move that may involve some smoke and... — read more 

I got a "mandatory" presential meeting today with a HR guy it resulted the to be the layoff meeting. I was working for OCI-C project, you are warned. Post ID: @Y85sLda-1dbv Moving to the top for visibility.

they fire engineers from one side, hire and sponsor engineers at 150 K plus on the other side! wonder how DOL is approving these petitions!

EMEA will see a huge reorg in June 2019 (Q1FY20). Solution Engineering will push their hub plans and Business Development will get some axe magic. CSMs will most probably be reduced even further. Digital teams will also face a major overhaul.

https://twitter.com/TheLayoff/status/1108055983358648326

When is this layoff process gonna end ?

https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/oracle-beefs-up-advanced-support-to-help-customers-thrive-in-the-cloud-300814563.html

The stock is going up day by day, any idea why?

Please add which Product / business unit and number of layoffs Example: Oracle Management Cloud- 0 lay offs on 3/19/2019 as its highly profitable

Looks like Oracle cloud business is struggling. They're using fake limited time offers to trap customers into using OCI. https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:6507957144946503680

Is somebody simply trolling or are people actually being laid off today? If they are, where? Which locations and departments?

The Motley Fools us apparently not impressed with all the share buybacks to boost oracle’s share price - deja vue ala IBM, and the lack of investment in new solutions / acquisitions. Totally gets it why WB sold his oracle shares. Yep, you can fool... — read more 

...at IDC... ES org... check with the folks you know in the org. Good luck!

In the way they are doing this they are just cutting costs and giving up on talent, the very people that have the potential to bring actual value to the company, while the source of the problem isn’t touched. Who do they think they’re kidding? Have... — read more 

Guys , Please tell , What is the chance of Oracle Campus hires(New hires) to get laid off? Has it happened in the past. I know some people have been informed by their managers about this layoff, Does that mean the others are safe?

M5 here. There are no "spreadsheets", we are a software company and we use our own software to monitor your performance, (https://mos-analytics.us.oracle.com for one example of many). The metrics that are measured are different for each org, and are... — read more 

How is omc business doing ? Hoping no lay offs in that unit and product