One wonders if you are worth more than the perceived value of cost savings from letting you go. Lets do some quick executive level math. As of last fiscal year oracle had over 130,000 employees globally. In FY 2107 they hatched a plan to cut... — read more 

Guessing that we are safe until spring. No mandatory meetings and no FedEx for me. Whew. Merry Christmas to one and all. I still have a job!

Hallway rumors suggest a mid-February massive layoff. You have been warned. Good luck

i am working as contractor in HR department in Oracle California, they offered me full time (with a meager salary) and i accepted it, for a month they did not give joining date(all the formalities like hire right checks etc completed) and finally the... — read more 

where the heck is Oracle sales??????? http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/the-military-is-offering-amazon-a-5-billion-contract-without-seeing-if-anyone-can-do-it-cheaper/article/2642078

https://www.yahoo.com/finance/news/amazon-kicked-off-huge-cloud-175023660.html Amazon Web Services CEO Andy Jassy took shot at Oracle during his keynote for AWS big tech conference in AWS. He showed a cartoon on stage that was a dig at Oracle and its... — read more 

Any one know how many of the UK Customer success managers (CSMs) survived after last Q Register article http://www.theregister.co.uk/2017/08/25/oracles_cloudy_cash_dash_could_fall_flat_insiders_warn/ ? Any investigation who was the insider and the... — read more 

Is this still on for Friday? What departments and how deep? Or is this now pushed off until January 2018??

So we know Oracle always cleans shop after quarter end. Management and employees are already being hauled in front of execs to explain quarter end short falls - which never ends well for the lower ranks. The Cloud success story is still very... — read more 

More cuts coming to Broomfield. All STK product development will cease by the Christmas break. Layoffs will be the 2nd week of 2018. Only one product will remain.

Lots of interesting cloud partnerships out there: SFDC runs on AWS and now also has a deal to run on Google cloud; SFDC also has a deal with IBM Watson; now SAP and MSFT Azure have struck a deal to run SAP cloud apps in Azure. Et tu oracle? The wall... — read more 

People on this site have at times referred to ongoing or potential SEC investigation of Oracle, especially as it relates to cloud revenues - can anyone shed some light on whether this is real or not, please.

What’s your best guess of q2 cloud revenues based on how you and your buddies are doing? Better or worse than q1?

No major layoffs this past week. Total remains at 7,150 for FY18 YTD, and 17,150 since 6/1/2016. Dangerous layoff week coming up, best luck all.

Hardware engineers laid off in BUR on Sept 1st may have been surprised when Oracle subsequently fedexed them a letter suggesting they apply for hardware development engineer positions. Not to worry, seems Oracle is being pushed to justify H1b visas... — read more 

JB now worth at least $100bn makes LE seem outright poor and a total failure. Eat your heart out LE!

Ebenezer Scrooge is about to get a literal run for his money next week. We will see if Lay offs come during the holidays or not. Seeing as over $450 Million remain in expenses ear marked for employee severance packages by May 31 of 2018, the question... — read more 

some strong rumors are that JD (EMEA) is moving to another position, together with some other (MS already moved, more to move in the next months). rats in the know leaving the sinking ship just before final collapse. a clear writing on the wall.

Just saw an ad on the ABC network for AWS directed at small biz. Why doesn’t Oracle advertise their cloud? Could it be their total disdain for any biz that is not Fortune 500? Their lack of goodwill to their customers and their horrid reputation for... — read more 

With the shrinking of the on prem workforce what is to become of the mountain of technical debt that Oracle has amassed through the crazy acquisition spree? As more of us get invited to the door it would seem that Oracle will reach a tipping point... — read more 

At $48 per share oracle has to be the most overvalued company on the stock market. I mean, it has no sustainable revenues from any products: no HW, no on-prem products, no cloud products, yes a tail of declining support revenues from old products... — read more 

Who’s the big, big Turkey this year? Well let’s see. Who has no HW revenues, steeply declining SW revenues, no cloud, and steeply declining support revenues. It’s oracle! LE is the Big Turkey!

Here it goes MH...your old company--HP/ CEO Meg.W missed her numbers and is stepping down-- http://money.cnn.com/2017/11/21/technology/meg-whitman-steps-down/index.html have at least her balls..and do the same....

last year this time... CRM/share $73 and ORCL/share $40-- now: CRM: $108, ORCL:$48 any question???????

No major layoffs this past week. Total for FY18 remains 7,150; total since 6/1/2016 17,150. More layoffs expected soon accepting to other threads. Take care all

Harvard Business Review has published its list of the best CEOs: SFDC’s MB #12; LE/MH/SC nowhere to be found. No surprises here, just a confirmation that oracle is a poorly managed company run by bad executIves.

Taking a look at the macro trends and the amount budgeted for employee severance packages we can clearly see that Oracle is about half way to their "Restructuring goal" put in place by executives last year. The Only way to achieve that goal... — read more 

What groups do you think will be most affected on Dec 1st layoffs?

I was with NAS Comms. Industry vertical failed and now we are heading towards a big change for that group..vp of sales, BD, operations, finance are arrogant. . Reps are being cheated..focus is on OD..who does not know head or tail..all the best to... — read more 

Ironic, isn’t it, LE could have achieved immortality, a la Jobs, had he had the good judgement to die 10 years ago, now he’ll go down in history as a guy who got lucky and then overstayed his welcome and ran the company into the ground. This... — read more 

Yet again shareholders have voted against the exec comp plan. This is now, of course, a regular and comical feature of the oracle shareholders meetings. Management proposes outrageous and unjustified pay plans for itself, shareholders rejects them... — read more 

For the ex-Sun folks with a Labor Day WARN and Halloween termination, when will the severance payment hit our mailboxes? While we are out of town for Thanksgiving? Can we get direct deposit? From the packet, "Your severance payment will occur only... — read more 

"Oracle Corp. CEO Mark Hurd thinks many Silicon Valley companies aren’t being completely honest about their efforts to develop artificial intelligence technology." Yes, he is correct. He needs to stopping F..ing lying about his company's efforts in... — read more 

The lack of direction is killing us. Every month it seem like the goals completely change and we have no idea where the ship is supposed to be headed. There is no comprehensive vision for our company or products. Just a bunch of random, often... — read more 

The next wave to hit will be first quarter 2018.

No major layoff activity reported this past week. Total for FY18 stays at 7,150; total since 6-1-16 remains at 17,150. Note: almost $500m of restricting reserve left for FY18 layoffs - that’s a lot of people. Keep looking !

E N T E R P R I S E C L O U D A D O P T I O N L I F E C Y C L E ( E C A L ) ECAL is a business-driven process, aimed at achieving customer success at "cloud speed." ECAL begins with identifying priority business initiatives, use cases and adoption... — read more 

(Source Below) If you knew the guy you'd know what I am talking about here. Such a shame... Have a great weekend... The latest talent to have departed Oracle is a longtime GNOME contributor who has at Oracle/Sun Microsystems for nearly the past two... — read more 

I blew a fuse traveling and started booking follow up meetings at the customer sites near resort areas. I have been literally flying to both coasts for weeks and spending more time in the airports than at meetings when it hit me... Why am I doing... — read more