Well, it was obvious that LE was making a huge bet, just not clear what the bet was. No longer, the bet is that the future of oracle is NetSuite, everything else - Fusion cloud apps, on-prem apps, hardware - is toast. If everybody in those groups is... — read more 

Heard from management that the leadership team has more or less thrown in the towel when it comes to FA and have accepted that the future of the apps business at Oracle will be in acquired assets like NetSuite. Feature wise, FA will not progress much... — read more 

Anybody know any rumors about what is happening to the CAD team at Oracle? Will they get acquired? I would think the CAD team would be the most sellable part of the SPARC processor group. Maybe Ansys or something could buy them to compet better with... — read more 

Whole Foods, Sears, Mattel, DXC, AT&T, Verizon... Exactly how many companies have to be in mass shutdown mode before people figure out there's a problem? And it isn't isolated to their specific company or circumstances. Time to wake up people, the... — read more 

I heard atleat 3 people laid off today and one from non omcs in HQ

The total has moved up to 3,200 with layoffs in India and Emea this week. No US layoffs reported. Get ready for a big whack on June 1!

Hey oppressed masses at oracle, did you notice how the three stooges are raking it in and you're getting scxed? Time to leave for a better places and enjoy seeing the oracle share price/ LE's fortune calapse. He's not willing to share so screw him!

What can you share about layoffs this week? Any more layoffs in Poland? How many and which function in India? Where else were there layoffs this week?

Did you all see Boeing's announcement that there were laying off hundreds of engineers, and then did you see Oracle's? Oh, sorry, oracle doesn't make announcement, the three stooges think that nobody will notice - wrong! Same for when they replace US... — read more 

So looks like oracle laid off 50 engineers in CGBU in Burlington, MA and immediately started back filling them with Indian engineers from India, brought here to be trained and sent back. In what other areas is oral legal doing a similar thing? Share... — read more 

Layoffs this week: CGBU - 50, HSGBU - 7, Poland Solaris support - 20, plus singles =~100. Keep reporting

So looks like we had layoffs on Poland and the HSGBU this week - any other layoffs to report ?

Are massive sales consultant layoffs planned for June?

Romania became a really expensive country to hire and Oracle is desperate to relocate to another country for lower salaries. HR in EMEA is now hiring in Bulgaria. They are using local job agencies and completely outside of official channels (you... — read more 

Very interesting developments: http://fortune.com/2017/04/12/trump-oracle-safra-catz-2/

Another round of layoffs started today. Support engineers in Solaris/Network and Disk domains in Poland were laid off along with hub agents. More layoffs to follow next week. Spain is next, followed by other sites in Europe.

Well it's a first this year, but the layoff total for the calendar year to date stay the same at 3,050. Yes there was a 5 person layoff in the HSGBU this week, which is sad, but it doesn't move the needle. Unfortunately, this is merely a temporary... — read more 

Where is the March/April layofff? Anyone has any update?

What layoffs are you aware of this week? Number of people, unit, location? Share what you know!

I heard a rumor that folks at the top want to eliminate remote work, they want people working at HQ. Anyone else heard this?

If it is in fact correct that Director level and higher employees were put on flex vacation and has their carries vacation taken away, then their vacation accruals which had already been expenses would have bee reversed and would have - artificially... — read more 

When the new policy was announced – YES, I knew their real motivation was to get the liability off the books…. YES, I knew they just made layoffs cheaper with this move …. YES, I knew this was NOT some altruistic thing done for our benefit… But it’s... — read more 

I received an 8-month severance at a former employer. When my new company checked my employment history, I was reported by my old company as "employed" during those 8 months. Anyone know if Oracle records you in the same way?

If you join your next employer before the 60 day notification period ends, are you still eligible to claim severance ?

The calendar year to date layoff total now stands at 3,050 as of end of this week. With the layoffs in different parts of the GBU it is clear that industry specialization is no longer important to oracle, which is looking to increasingly offer... — read more 

Let us know what's going on - location, function, number of people, etc Good luck everybody !

Oracle has just taken away all salaried employees accrued vacation and replaced it with "flex" vacation. When you have "unlimited" vacation, you have no vacation.

According to Theregister.co.uk Desperation setting in at top floor of 500 Oracle Parkway, anything that looks disruptive that can be used to explain away poor cloud revenue and profit numbers

is anyone done with the enrollment?

Amazingly looks like no layoffs this past week so the total for the calendar year remains at 3,000. Little hope that this number will remain unchanged. Keep looking for new jobs!

Could it be that there were no layoffs this week whatsoever? Don't believe it so pipe up here if you were laid off

Here are some links to the episode on #H1B abuse as seen by #MSM - as you can see, the perception is morphing: Are U.S. jobs vulnerable to workers with H-1B visas? ... — read more 

Don't expect mass layoffs of IT workers even as the world's biggest companies move more of their workload to the cloud, Oracle CEO Mark Hurd told CNBC... Source:... — read more 

Updated Mar. 8, 2017 at 11:58 a.m. Oracle won't comment on report of 'huge' layoffs in Morrisville Tags: Employment, Layoffs MORRISVILLE, N.C. — Layoffs described as "huge" that hit "all departments" at Oracle's operations in Morrisville on Tuesday... — read more 

The total for calendar year 2017 has now reached 3,000. That includes the prior 2,900 year to date plus the layoffs this pas week of 40 or so in the CEGBU and unreported singles and doubles. Slow week whereas layoffs are concerned, related to the... — read more 

10 times faster and cheaper at running oracle DB than AWS - prove it !

So oracle makes it look like they had a great Q3, but that doesn't agree with my sense of reality, so any thoughts about what they did to goose up these numbers? I mean, surely this is not just organic growth, got to be lots of acquired revenue in... — read more 

So tired watching colleagues leaving on their own or being let go as the rest of us not know what is going on or what to expect tomorrow. At the same time MH & SC tell analysts and reporters all is great - and getting better. It is the complete... — read more