They could have spent the money retraining all of the folks they fired. A real shame. Oracle CEO welcomes the Design Tech High School community to their new campus at #Oracle HQ. “When there were roadblocks, the collective spirit of every person... — read more 

I am a CPR in North America. A GVP in the know in HD's org gave me the heads up that the ECA's management will be consolidating this quarter and moving to pooled model (mimicking the hubs). This means the ranks of AL, LW, RL, EU will be less. They... — read more 

so how is that.. some groups have been receiving annual inflation raise (2-3%) across the board and some act like they are a different company?..just spoke with a collegue who was lucky enough to find an internal position (totally different group--... — read more 

Who does oracle use for W2? I forgot. Former employee.

I had a call with my old group vice president, after the customer call I dialed his number for a followup conversation. He is a GVP for the ECA team (Enterprise cloud Architects). He and I have a close relationship, and I brought up the rumors that... — read more 

No major layoffs this past week reported. Total for FY18 stands at 7,275 and since 6/1/2016 at 17,275. Major concerns about more layoff remain: still hundreds of millions left in the FY18 restricting reserve, and Austin, TX facility opening in fill... — read more 

It seems like all the major cloud players are almost completely done taking the steps needed (patching) to protect their customers. Every one I looked at has already released a statement about their efforts. We have yet to even acknowledge we have a... — read more 

Only two major CPU architectures have not received some sort of official response from their vendors regarding Meltdown & Spectre: SPARC and Itanium. Notice any pattern here? Look at how seriously a REAL systems company takes this:... — read more 

..Would the current batch of Systems/Solaris folks be still around ? The customers still have our products. I wonder if Oracle plans to keep around the remaining folks for longer time.

http://www.firstpost.com/world/h1b-extensions-on-the-chopping-block-4282721.html Over the last 10 years - from 2007 to 2017, Indians have taken the lion’s share of H1B visa approvals every single year followed by China in second place and Canada... — read more 

The previous post said "Oracle is divesting itself of all hardware related development, and production will be scaled back to match only existing customer demand." But then it goes on to say Oracle is simply scaling back to meet customer demand. That... — read more 

High level rumors are circulating, Group Vice President (GVP) level rumors. These are not confirmed, but I am posting what I have heard here. Next major round of layoffs are slated for March 1st 2018. Most of this will be hardware related. Oracle is... — read more 

ORCL/ still $47..not a dime up...@$#!$

Here's an example of Oracle's treatment of hard workers, done with a phone conference with a pre-recorded message. Ed the man at his best, hell has a special place for such jerk offs in life. I will post this recording for many years, so future and... — read more 

https://www.marketwatch.com/story/oracle-falls-after-report-that-amazon-salesforce-are-developing-own-databases-2018-01-02?siteid=yhoof2&yptr=yahoo Oracle Corp. ORCL, -1.82% shares declined Tuesday after a report that Amazon.com Inc. AMZN, +1.53% and... — read more 

Am I the only one who actually feels good about the incoming year for Oracle? There weren't as many layoffs as we have feared in the last quarter, and I'm hoping that trend will continue. Analysts are bullish on our stock, which is a good way to ring... — read more 

Look like last week as peaceful on the layoff front. Total for FY remains at 7,275 and at 17,275 since 6/1/2016. Happy New Year all, BUT no not assume that all is well at oracle, chances of more significant layoffs on the new year remain high.

Poor KAD is shown the door. One more KAD is also likely to be laidoff in Jan18.

Any customers here who’ve had their legal dept look into whether oracle doubling the price of running oracle DB on AWS violated stars or federal predatory pricing laws? Would appreciate you sharing. Thanks!

LE is that Internet thing for real? Business gonna use it, you think? Something oracle should be involved with and have products for? Any thoughts LE?

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/estimating-intrinsic-value-oracle-corporation-133510993.html

Gotta be some layoffs in Jan/Feb since no big grouping of layoffs yet this quarter. They have to meet their restructuring numbers and stick their plan. Yup, I'm pretty sure we'll have a bigger round in the following two months just to keep with the... — read more 

No major layoffs reported this past week. Total for FY18 remains at 7,275; since 6/1/2016 at 17,275. Next six months will be interesting. Still hundreds of millions left in the restricting reserve and expectations of major layoffs to come. However... — read more 

https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/public-safety/va-man-behind-20-million-visa-fraud-faces-deportation-after-prison-sentence/2017/12/22/61007138-e729-11e7-833f-155031558ff4_story.html?utm_term=.ece54596e5fe

Oracle have now a new internal campaign on integrity as a foundation of trust and principle of good business. What a failed attempt to cover up the corruption and poor integrity that are currently rooted in the company and of course the compliance &... — read more 

Hope it all works out for y’all in 2018. Stay safe this holiday period.

Oracle is going to hugely benefit from the new tax law and continue to lay people off. Well, when the layoffs pick up on calendar 2018, let’s make sure we cause a big stink about it. The purported purpose of this give away to large corporations is... — read more 

I predict the new autonomous database will run fine on small data sets, but when you get in the terabyte range it will be terrible. The reason that it will perform poorly is that it will take forever (and it does) to run statistics. They will have to... — read more 

Total Cloud market: IaaS, PaaS, SaaS (Source: Jefferies) Cloud vendor Annualized revenue % of market Year-over-year growth Amazon Web Services $18.34 billion 26% 42% Microsoft Azure $21.21 billion 31% 64% IBM Cloud $6.03 billion 9% 23% Google Cloud... — read more 

Time for a good morale booster.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/bobevans1/2017/12/18/the-top-10-reasons-why-oracle-and-its-cloud-business-are-in-great-shape/#4b6cfef4664d

Would like to hire the ex-Sun Solaris Kernel/Platform developers. It's been challenging to track down where they are. If anyone knows someone from that team, let us know.

How many people will lose their jobs in Cloud due to the Aconex acquisition, of which I'm still failing to understand the purpose? Oracle is always consolidation trigger happy, so I'm pretty sure that loses on both sides will be rather high. Next... — read more 

It is almost certain Oracle is shutting down certain on-premise software products and moving long term support to India and China. So all people related to those products will be gone in 2018. It will be blood letting the entire year as oracle goes... — read more 

MH in a stroke of genius has decided to take Oracle from a 40 billion plus software company and turn it into a 10 billion plus cloud company. Software takes zero dollars to mass produce when written. Its does take money to maintain software, upgrade... — read more 

LE has done it this time writing checks the bank cannot cash. Insolvency and Chapter 11 is around the corner. The smart ones will abandon ship now

Failing oracle, unable to keep up with competition in the cloud had to make yet another expensive acquisition, this time of Aconex. All of which raises a simple question: why does oracle have a huge and hugely expensive Development group and how... — read more 

Did you folks notice the new oracle strategy? Yeah, they’re posting here, pretending to be employees/ former employees and suggesting how the rest of us should behave. Be nice to oracle, don’t criticize - it’s a small world and the arm of oracle is... — read more 

All people you that complain about Oracle. Shame on you. You need to support the company as it grows in the cloud space. Do the needful.