Without naming your customers (unless you are gone and don’t care), what are some of the crazy unethical practices you have seen at Oracle? Let’s help those Firefighters pension funds who are suing Oracle.
Bernstein Litowitz Berger & Grossmann LLP Announces Securities Class Action Suit Filed Against Oracle Corporation And Certain Of Its Executives
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/bernstein-litowitz-berger-grossmann-llp-205500530.html =========================================== NEW YORK, Aug. 10, 2018 /PRNewswire/ -- Bernstein Litowitz Berger & Grossmann LLP ("BLB&G") today announced that it... — read more
EQUITY ALERT: Rosen Law Firm Announces Filing of Securities Class Action Lawsuit against Oracle Corporation – ORCL
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/equity-alert-rosen-law-firm-223400469.html ========================================= .... According to the lawsuit, throughout the Class Period defendants issued false and misleading statements regarding Oracle’s cloud... — read more
IMPORTANT INVESTOR NOTICE: The Law Firm Announces the Filing of a Class Action Lawsuit Against Oracle Corporation
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/important-investor-notice-schall-law-183000761.html ========================================================= IMPORTANT INVESTOR NOTICE: The Schall Law Firm Announces the Filing of a Class Action Lawsuit Against Oracle... — read more
How to explain being laid off/fired in job interview
Good read for those trying to figure out how deal with the fact they were laid off or even fired during their next job interview. At least I found it interesting... — read more
** partial Article== An Oracle insider explains.....
Are you an insider at an enterprise tech company with insight to share? We want to hear it! jbort@businessinsider.com or @Julie188. ================================================================================= In August, 2017, Oracle's massive... — read more
An Oracle insider explains how some salespeople gamed the system to sell more cloud..
https://www.businessinsider.com/insider-reveals-how-some-oracle-salespeople-were-really-selling-cloud-2018-8 ====================== In August, 2017, Oracle's massive salesforce received an email from Rich Geraffo, Oracle's executive vice president... — read more
Unofficial official layoff report 8/12/2108
No major layoffs reported this past week. Total since 6/1/2016 remains at 19,850. Things are getting interesting but don’t let that distract you from looking for jobs elsewhere, things are only going to get worse at oracle.
Businessinsider cloud fraud story
Excellent story but it gets one thing fundamentally wrong - it wasn’t sales people manipulating things, it was oracle top management which desperately wanted to produce cloud revenues. Is this oracle already trying to shift blame?! Check it out:... — read more
Oracle Cloud is noise
from another thread: "this is for example a couple of the latest report on real cloud share ww: https://www.channele2e.com/channel-partners/csps/cloud-market-share-2018-aws-microsoft-google/... — read more
Oracle Accused of Defrauding Investors on Cloud Sales Growth..
==== https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-08-10/oracle-accused-of-defrauding-investors-on-cloud-sales-growth ===== ...The suit claimed that Oracle’s executives lied in forward-looking statements, which are never guaranteed, during earnings... — read more
Oopsie?
https://www.bloomberg.com/amp/news/articles/2018-08-10/oracle-accused-of-defrauding-investors-on-cloud-sales-growth
Employee Success or lack thereof... future layoff coming??
The culture and morale in the CSM Hubs is at an all point low! They preach employee success but have yet to see them actually commit and deliver. Rumors are wild on every campus (TX,MA,Canada). What's the real story here? Do we have jobs? Are jobs... — read more
Amazon Gains Competitive Edge in Cloud With Aurora Serverless
Amazon Gains Competitive Edge in Cloud With Aurora Serverless https://finance.yahoo.com/news/amazon-gains-competitive-edge-cloud-140902871.html
Industry declares Oracle cloud all but dead - KB Offers advice
Oracle’s database service offerings could be its last best hope for cloud success. https://techcrunch.com/2018/08/08/oracles-database-service-offerings-could-be-its-last-best-hope-for-cloud-success/ Yesterday Oracle announced a new online transaction... — read more
Start Up Cloud Accelerators Life Span
The Oracle Startup Cloud Accelerator program was marched out as Oracle's way of reaching new innovators and the younger hipper crowd as a market to sell cloud services and platforms, but from what I hear the ROI on this is not good as startups are... — read more
KB v MH
What a total boneheaded LE is to have fired KB and kept MH! KB totally kicking a-- at SFDC, oracle sinking to the bottom of the ocean. Stupid is as stupid does!
Finally happened-- Oracle is out//- "Oracle Corp files protest over Pentagon cloud computing contract.."
it finally happened---- even SC shmooz with POTUS did'nt change a thing..! from this point on-- oracle cloud is officially inferior in the marketplace.. ==================... — read more
Still sinking.... can't wait for next quarter results
The old and rotten Oracle ship is on its way down. If you are still on board, you can hear the creaking of the timbers and the rats scurrying through the corridors. The crew is mostly gone or jumping ship, while the clueless rats spend their time... — read more
Oracle UK Job Posts: Brexit Vaporware?
Oracle is still advertising job positions in the UK (Reading, London, etc), including for roles that are being laid off elsewhere. Are these Oracle job postings for real? With Brexit and the exodus of companies from London to other European... — read more
Confirmed: 160 Seasoned Professionals to be laid off August 31st
Its pretty clear that layoffs are coming and the best way to see it is to follow the tweets of Oracle leaders. https://twitter.com/MarkVHurd/status/1024411908361912320 We want the best talent at @Oracle and we invest in it. Welcoming 160 examples of... — read more
How many times does this need to be repeated?
There will not be a "HUGE" layoff on August 31 or any other day. The layoffs are gradual, affecting a couple of departments at a time. They can and will happen anytime. With few exceptions (e.g. Netsuite), Oracle's products are considered "legacy."... — read more
Unofficial official layoff report 8/5/2018
Looks like 250 people were laid off this last week, including in TK’s development org, and cloud. That brings the total since 6/1/2016 to 19,850. Surely more layoffs coming down the pike. Keep looking for new jobs!
RaaS
Oracle has an entirely new BU: RaaS - RIF As A Service We're industry leaders!
Oracle DBA Changing Career
Changing career. My 24 years of Oracle DBA not as marketable anymore. Everywhere is going for SQL Server, Azure and good to have Cassandra/MongoDB. Though, SQL Server seems to be a lot easier to grasp. Just the backup recovery itself would not need a... — read more
Oracle is trying to calm investors over executive pay
Oracle is trying to calm investors over executive pay........ ====== https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/?hl=en&shva=1#inbox/165012beda1b0f53
Confucius say big layoff coming August 31
Hold on to your chopsticks
Layoff in India CSM team
There is news of layoff in CSM SaaS team based out of India. 2 employees were asked to go.... Grapevine says the restructuring in the PaaS CSM team will hit ground very soon. The roles would be moved to hub location by end of Q2 or Q3. Very sad... — read more
selling technical debt
What's the timetable for when Oracle will sell all their technical debt to microfocus? Anyone want to take a stab predicting the time frame?
Rumor is that HD is going to be replaced
They are hiring and will train his replacement. The kid just graduated from Canada community college with a gpa of 1.9. He will save O a lot of money. O is going down the tubes.
Amazon plans to move completely off Oracle software by early 2020
https://www.cnbc.com/2018/08/01/amazon-plans-to-move-off-oracle-software-by-early-2020.html?__source=yahoo%7Cfinance%7Cheadline%7Cstory%7C&par=yahoo&yptr=yahoo
Oracle stock drops due to Amazon dropping Oracle
https://www.cnbc.com/2018/08/01/amazon-plans-to-move-off-oracle-software-by-early-2020.html Jeff Bezos Getty Images Jeff Bezos Amazon's emergence as a major provider of data center technology has turned many of its longtime suppliers, including... — read more
The gloves with AWS are off
https://www.marketwatch.com/story/oracles-stock-dives-into-negative-territory-after-report-amazon-will-stop-using-its-software-2018-08-01 oracle will for sure claim it isnot true. le, mh and trump fan sc should start to think twice before engaging... — read more
Are we done?
Are we done with layoffs for this week or can we expect more?
Future Plans for HD's group
With his key folks like BS, AL leaving, RL and LW being pushed out, what happens to the ECA group? I have been approached about taking a hub position since it will be sure to be there. No matter how they sugarcoat it, it is still a demotion. I will... — read more
CSMs moving to Europe?? Wth?
Found in another post. Please elaborate if you have more details. Why? Where? Who? Not looking forward to the comp call. This stress is none I have ever dealt with. What areas in Oracle is safe to move too? “I heard the same. The free model will... — read more