First layoff experience workers and then denounce immigration policy as that threatens cheap labor 😄. Foreign students come to study on their own money. We should not be obligated to keep them here. But giving them opportunities to gain experience is... — read more 

There is no single "Oracle killer." Mongo DB works fine for some apps, but Mongo is not going to be a successful public company. There is too much competition and too few customers are willing to pay a lot of money for a product that is open source... — read more 

High level management is abandoning ship. They are leaving based on executive direction known as "clean sweep." The pivot to the cloud has stalled, consumption of cloud credits is not happening. Expect big changes in management over the next few... — read more 

Just got out of moscone, LE spoke only about database and compared database on AWS. Intel took the stage before. No mention of M8 or sparc by LE.

Anyone understand why the 150 lost in WWOPS didn't get WARN applied to them? The SPARC and Solaris people were RIFd on 9/1 are still in Aria. The WWOPS people got hit on 9/28 and are gone from the system. Large numbers of both RIFs were in SCA.

Some interesting quotes from this article. I discovered that “super bosses” like ... tech innovator Larry Ellison ... built legacies by establishing an ongoing flow of talent with an emphasis on employee development. Stunningly, these bosses all... — read more 

The report about layoffs in WWOPS turned out to be true, looks like 120 people lost their jobs. With some other laid off as well, I call it 150 this week. That brings the total for this FY to 7,150, and since 6/1/2016 to 17,150. Not over yet by any... — read more 

And when will they get hit?

I'm going to file a class action lawsuit against Oracle for age discrimination. The list sent out on 9.1.2017 to be posted public.

Other tech companies, SDFC, MSFT, AWS, Google, have great spokes persons in the CEO, and then there is oracle, with H..d the T..d, being the public face of the company. What a total joke! I mean these other people are intelligent and interesting ad... — read more 

Hear hardware was being sold to Lenovo as part of Oracle's transition to the cloud... and Lenovo needing some servers. #OOW17

Three former femal oracle employees have filed a lawsuit against oracle over pay discrimination. See techcrunch for details and copy of law suit. Best of luck to the theee of you, may you collect millions!

Check this out: http://www.businessinsider.com/oracle-board-reject-shareholder-gender-pay-gap-audit-2017-9 So much for openness and transparency.

http://www.bbc.com/capital/story/20170929-what-most-bosses-get-wrong-about-millennials

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-09-29/oracle-s-ellison-adds-2-9-billion-to-fortune-on-pledged-shares

Just want to share with everyone here. A disclaimer first: My company is going through cuts, we have a lively board here - I do not work for Oracle. Anyhow, I've been harrased by an Oracle "Database and Cloud Business Consultant" who wants to chat... — read more 

It’s a powerful value proposition. In fact, MongoDB could be a threat to some of the legacy players like Oracle Corporation (NYSE:ORCL). For the most part, it looks like the database market is facing the most significant changes in decades. As a... — read more 

from: https://seekingalpha.com/article/4107969-oracle-reluctant-bull-lifts-horns I confess it - Oracle (ORCL) is a company whose shares I dislike recommending. I simply do not like the culture or the personalities of the leadership. And it is... — read more 

http://www.businessinsider.com/oracle-board-reject-shareholder-gender-pay-gap-audit-2017-9

It seems that every this or that group at #Oracle gets axed – at this point, all of this has started to affect my health, my #anxiety levels are through the roof. Seriously, I try to avoid thinking about layoffs, try to avoid discussing it with... — read more 

If you look back a couple of decades, you'll see that the electronics manufacturing industry went through a similar shift. Having in-house manufacturing capability was expensive and wasn't central to the business. Contract manufacturers, due to their... — read more 

Every so often I click in "Related Companies" to see what's going on around the industry. The move to the Cloud and specifically behemoths Amazon, Microsoft and Google is wiping out the traditional on-prem / integrated stack players. Some are in even... — read more 

As you are notified of labels having been printed in your name and of the actual layoffs, please report them here. Please add location and org, number of people being laid off, etc. Good luck all be well !

I am support engineer that handles multiple service requests in a given day. At any given day, we have Oracle consultants(contractor-billable under Aria) that logs non stop severity 1 24x7 service requests asking us to do their jobs for them. 99% of... — read more 

A strong manager will avoid massive layoffs by hiring well, training thoroughly, and supporting his/her staff through difficult times. A weak manager makes sure he/she gets paid first and best, and in times of adversity takes the path of least... — read more 

Does anyone know? Heard there will be only support teams left.

Laying off as much talent as they have and the manner in which Oracle performed the layoff on 9.1.2017. Where ever I land and I'm close, Oracle wont have any software, nor equipment on the floor. No Oracle cloud services, AWS or AZURE. All Oracle... — read more 

Granted to the Board is stacked with LE cronies, but so they have any clue how bad and uncompetitive oracle's cloud products are and how insane oracle's layoffs are? Talk about getting rid of talent that oracle will never get back or be able to... — read more 

I am hearing that HD is done and that he is leaving a cloud vendor. There will be a big re-org after OOW and not before because execs don't have time to do this with the conference. Major changes coming right after OOW. They could cut the ECA & SC... — read more 

FYI - Tried to rollover my 401K into my IRA this morning and was informed by the Fidelity rep that I must wait 30 days to do so. He also told me that my current 401K investments were not available in the IRA and it would be necessary to liquidate the... — read more 

Anyone got updates on whether the WWOps RIF will happen before or after OOW? Do they want to pay us a couple more weeks of salary?

Strong managers who make tough decisions to cut jobs provide the only true job security in today's world. Weak managers are the problem. Weak managers destroy jobs.

See http://www.barrons.com/articles/oracle-turns-its-sights-on-the-cloudat-last-1506141836

No major layoff action this past week reported. Totals remain at 7,000 for current FY18, and at 17,000 since 6/1/2016. Major layoffs across many orbs and geos this coming week reported. Good luck all. If you experience, see , or hear of actually... — read more 

People are leaving Bare metal cloud teams lin big chunks. Last two weeks, people left in higher numbers in Seattle, Santa Clara and HQ.

Are these projects killed?

Who's left...or is SCA a ghost town now?

Now that October is just around the corner, it's probably time to for another recommendation to sign up for FedEx delivery notifications (if you're in the US and think you may get the axe soon). If you don't already have a FedEx account, go to their... — read more 

How many ECAs do we have and how many will be impacted, any thoughts?

Anyone have a clue, as I'm in the valley and want to prepare.