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
The fiscal 1st quarter earnings- a confrontation with the truth.
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
Rumor has it large reorgs are coming in Cloud Services - Dev and CSM
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
OCI and OCIC SRs are now going to Ops
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
earnings call on monday
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
What's going on in Santa Clara?
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
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
Please take us with you - Toronto CSM
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.
Oracle's Lost Decade in App Development
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
Cloud fraud Holiday jingle contest
All right folks, in the spirit of the Holidays let’s see who has the best oracle cloud fraud jingle
Bonus for displaced CSMs?
Curious to know if the displaced SaaS CSMs who were transferred to OD and NetSuite are still going to get their bonuses for Q2?
Bonuses in IDC
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.
19Q2 end updates
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...
IBM & oracle suing DOD -losers!
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
Microsoft tops Forbes ‘Just 100’ list of most responsible companies, Oracle missing in list
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)
Apparently run NZ health system into the ground, too
https://www.theregister.co.uk/AMP/2018/12/10/national_oracle_solution_write_down/
Not that much different at Dell/EMC
“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
Article on Thomas Kurian going to Google
https://www.cnbc.com/2018/11/16/kurian-has-to-overcome-a-bitter-feud-between-google-and-oracle.html
Larry's Sliver of the cloud business pie
See https://www.businessinsider.com/amazon-web-services-andy-jassy-roasts-oracle-larry-ellison-2018-11 His target: Oracle Executive Chairman Larry Ellison, whose face was pictured on a giant screen, peering haplessly over the edge of pie chart's tiny... — read more
Unofficial official layoff report 12/9/2018
No major layoffs this past week week, total since 6/1/2016 remains at 20,246. Keep looking all, things at oracle are not getting better.
Interview with Dr. Ron Hira on the H1-B Visa Program
Interview with Dr. Ron Hira on the H1-B Visa Program https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sUf6b8aljpM
Oracle sues DOD over the cloud buy
I know a lot of money is in play here, but this will get us nowhere. In fact these moves, for me, border with childish behavior. We all know that Oracle isn’t exactly on top of the cloud market, why the hell would they think that they would be the... — read more
People leave managers not companies
it's a classic but seems forgotten or ignored in O. many good people are driven out by their management.
25 sales reps in India CPR South and East region on pip
Looks like some more changes hitting India Number of CPR sales reps would be reduced, followed by Solution Engineer/SC. And this is CPR side of LOB meaning DB and Middleware products are not even selling. Shoot looks like party for India has ended... — read more
Merry Christmas! No layoffs this year for the holidays. 0.006% chance you will be let go
Yep rumor has it that no layoffs are scheduled this quarter. You are free to go buy large expensive gifts on credit for your family. Rest easy. The fedex notice is probably a Christmas bonus from MH himself. Ho ho ho! Yes there will be no bonus or... — read more
National Prime Team-Future of Oracle
Hey All, I was offered a job on the National Prime team as an external hire, can anyone here give an honest assessment of if that is a good team to join?
Oracle Stock down again today
Down 2% today. Hit the $45 range at one point. Before you say it's just the general trend: HP and HPE up 3 and 6% AMZN up couple points MSFT up .6% Intel up IBM up
Future of Oracle?
What is the future of Oracle? Will someone buy Oracle?
Longtime Oracle employees have a hard time landing jobs at other companies
If you have been in oracle for too long, you are likely unemployable in any of the top cloud companies. I have seen so many existing oracle employees unable to land a job in companies like salesforce, aws and Microsoft despite being referred by their... — read more
Seems like no hikes in IDC this year
Just heard various rumors from multiple people saying that IDC will not see any hikes this year. Some are sti hopeful of a miracle end but thats very less number. Most seems to have accepted the fact that no hikes are coming. Any rumors or facts if... — read more
Total Chaos
Corrupt managers demand loyalty from developers instead of actual work. Loyalty includes sabotaging other developers and managers for them. Total chaos. Loyalty is rewarded with bonuses. People actually doing real work are resented and attacked. How... — read more
The irresistible force of the cloud
For once I agree with MH. I can sign his words about the endless opportunities on the cloud market an SaaS as my own. The only problem here is that Oracle’s leaders seem to know everything that needs to be done in order to become market leaders in... — read more
oracle apps
straight garbage people
Locking customers in
Even though this article reflects only the position and attitude of one competitor company and I don’t see anything wrong with trying to secure that your customers use a wider range of the company’s products, if it has the means to do so, I see this... — read more
OAC
my opinion : sales on the decline everyone is leaving or about to leave. jump ship before its too late
AWS worth much more than oracle
At an estimated valuation of $350 Bn AWS is worth almost twice as much as all of Oracle, with a market cap of a mere $188 BN. Eat your heart ♥️ out LE!
Tired of all the fuss over GM layoffs
Seriously, Oracle keeps laying off people constantly. The number is in tens of thousands by now. And yet there is no outrage, no media coverage, nothing. What makes General Motors so special? I really wish we could get a tenth of attention GM layoffs... — read more
Q2 Results ; Not pretty
How were Q2 results in your group? Many deals seemed to push...