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 

They're making us take all these sessions for IAAS, SAAS, and PAAS. As an EBS support engineer, who gives a ? Is this part of a plan where they lay off their ineffective cloud engineers and make us EBS folks not only do EBS support but also cloud... — read more 

Take a look at the rumors posted here on the "FY19 Oracle Zero" in field sales and compare it to the data reported in Oracle's September 18th 2017 10q. http://d18rn0p25nwr6d.cloudfront.net/CIK-0001341439/6aae1efb-e6ff-44cb-9563-94b1d5ebd7e1.pdf On... — read more 

Anybody dial in?

Currently the ERP teams do not have enough work to get thru the day. Managing 4-5 accounts each, many of those customers are not even live! ERP CSMs are watching movings, TV shows, etc during the day. Expect a huge shake up and Riffs coming (at all... — read more 

Have any COBRA users received any 2018 plan information from UHC? I looked on their website but found nothing about it. TIA

Proof that the end is near. "Oracle intends to use the net proceeds of the offering for general corporate purposes, which may include stock repurchases, payment of cash dividends on its common stock, repayment of indebtedness and future... — read more 

Has oracle ever provided a definition for what they consider to be and include in the financial as cloud revenue? Anybody seen it? And if so could you please post here

In case anyone missed this plan that was posted a while back. http://d18rn0p25nwr6d.cloudfront.net/CIK-0001341439/6aae1efb-e6ff-44cb-9563-94b1d5ebd7e1.pdf @PA4bEb1 It's clear that layoffs will continue for a year or two.

Just got back from San Francisco and Salesforce's Dreamforce is putting OOW to shame in terms of attendance and excitement. No matter what Larry says, they've got a bigger lead and more momentum. I look at my marcom talking points and wonder how much... — read more 

Oracle has built its empire on data. Times have changed and so has the amount of data, the velocity of change, and the amount of unstructured data. As Oracle "pivots" to the cloud with "non existent" infrastructure rife with vendor lock in and price... — read more 

Just read an interesting article on why customers are reluctant to move to the "Oracle Cloud." Sadly the pivot to the cloud will impact every employee at Oracle. Starting with sales first. You wont be able to survive the train wreck. What used to... — read more 

SPARC and Solaris are finished, and the Cloud is a failure. So what's left for Oracle? Just be a database company again?

Let’s have some fun here. Guess how much oracle cloud sales (yes, cloud washing) will decline by in Q2. I will start us off, with a guess of 20% decline.

The 3 stooges who stopped across the board pay raises, annual reviews and cutting basic benefits..this is what you get..field staff people who just hang around..till next pay check..and do not give a F*.. worse with their managers..this is not a cry... — read more 

Customer right in SF Market St, shouted Solaris and SPARC are dead - Why should I pay support cost?

many hush-hush hallway conversations confirming massive layoffs coming to the company very soon. The size and scale is unimaginable but the complete failure of cloud and the ERP products has major repercussions that must result in massive layoffs... — read more 

There are people posting about upcoming layoffs because they want their peers to panic, find another job, and quit. In their mind this will solidify their own job security. Don’t fall for it.

Nothing major to report this week. Total for FY18 remains at 7,150; total since 6/1/2016 at 17,150. This is far from over, keep looking for other opportunities

The irony of oracle hard turn to cloud and abondonment of on-perm apps like Siebel, JDE, etc is that IT swings back and forth between centralized and decentralized and with the limitations of cloud becoming more obvious by the day, oracle could have... — read more 

Found in another post. Any truth to this? Netsuite will be ok for awhile. In fact most folks on the ERP side are quickly jumping ship and moving into Netsuite. ERP Cloud is a joke and is nothing but financial deals. There was a plan to throw as many... — read more 

I am planning to join Netsuite. Any layoffs in this GBU?

I don’t get this. It was my understanding that Cobra enrollment form will be in the termination package I received on Tuesday. That was not the case and so I called 3rd party which told me that it will arrive in 7 to 10 business days. Now note that... — read more 

https://m.economictimes.com/nri/visa-and-immigration/india-very-strongly-raises-h-1b-visa-issue-with-us-suresh-prabhu/articleshow/61287982.cms

This only covers major layoffs, not stealthy ones that take place nearly all the time. https://americaclosed.com/oracle-layoffs-2017-hardware-unit-struggles-as-firm-shifts-its-focus/

A Group Vice President for Enterprise Cloud Architecture just got out of a meeting with HD who was proudly touting his plan for zero field Sales Consultants (Sales Engineers) in FY19. You heard that right. Everything is going to the hub in FY19. New... — read more 

Any news about focal annual salary review this year? Doesn’t it happen in Dec1 if it’s there?

Why won't Oracle get rid of Pillar engineering? The product never did sell, the all flash array was a bomb and the product never really worked. Is it because of Elllison's seed money? The Pillar management has to be some of the most inept management... — read more 

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Thoughts?

Well we know who gets treated at oracle: the useless senior execs who are grotesquely overpaid, and we know who gets tricked through all kinds of screwy incentive comp/ sales commissions plans. Oracle - the horror story

When folks in Amer and APAC are getting RIFed, how come the entire EU team is intact ? Is it because every single person in EU is more able and qualified than APAC and Amer ? I understand that EU layoff laws are stringent, but still stringent doesn't... — read more 

Got laid off awhile ago and still have friends in the GBU's - good people. Any word on those in the UGBU or FSGBU, esp in the States and Europe?

A small layoff in India this week, fewer than 10 people? The total for FY18 remains at 7,150 laid off; 17,150 laid off since 6/1/2016. Be well all and keep looking for better opportunities. Just a question of time till your number at oracle is up.

Bodes well for the Nov. ending quarter given what all the other big tech stocks have been reporting. I'd recommend loading up on ORCL and await your prize!

AWS operating profit of $1.2 billion jumped 36 percent compared to the previous year, showing that competitive pressures and the massive investments required to maintain a world-class cloud computing platform aren’t taking a toll on its bottom line... — read more 

Well, well, well, no surprise here: oracle new excessive executive pay package yet again slammed by ISS - share holder should vote against it. See Bloomberg.com. Same old sh*t, rewards them for just existing rather than doing their jobs.

MSFT now has a $20bn a year cloud business; oracle - oops not so much. Failure! For geniuses LE, MH, SC. No surprise here! Eat your heart out LE!

http://www.foxbusiness.com/features/2017/10/24/at-oracle-its-all-about-cloud-wsj.html Chief Executive Officer Mark Hurd says the move is in the customers' best interest Business software giant Oracle Corp. is in the midst of a massive transition... — read more