Clinton Foundation going out of business? Why would such a wonderful important non profit be going out of business? Oracle supported the Clinton Foundations database, any truth to this? Guess she couldn’t sell access anymore, don’t know though.

Did you folks see MH on CNBC? Cloud will not result in IT layoffs - really? Oracle will do things that internal IT people did before such as set up and run infrastructure, upgrade applications, etc. , but oracle doing it will not cost them their... — read more 

Do you have any updates on layoffs in Saint Petersburg, Russia. The last I heard was that about 250 will be let go before 5/31. Any truth in this?

Check out SC's fawning letter to the Chairman of the FCC at theregister.co.uk, talk about brown nosing to get the DoJ of Oracle's back. #noshamenomorals

"show me an incumbent bigco failing to adapt to change, I'll show you top execs paid huge cash compensation for quarterly and annual goals" No F ing kidding how perfectly does that describe Oracle!

Confirmed: No June shutdown, not that fast. Current product can sell for years, next product is on the shelf, no hurry to come out new product, no too many buyers anyway. Arch hits the wall, high power/frequency/cost but no obvious performance... — read more 

The quarterly earnings call coming up, here is a chance to help the analyst community ask the right questions of the theee overload monsters. Please contribute. To get us started: What is the succession plan? Which businesses - HW, on-prem apps... — read more 

According to Inc and As You Sow foundation SC & MH overpaid by $121m on total comp of $196.5. Shameful greed! Actially overpaid by much more if you understand the extent to which they are running oracle onto the abyss

Thoughts?

When Oracle Labs was shutdown we (in the HW group) were told that it wouldn't happen to us. Then BAM! 30% laid off in HW group. To quote MH (I heard him say this in person and as best as I can recall): "I'm not sure why we need the HW group when we... — read more 

The products are typically OK - in line with competition... Guess which part they do not like...

Lay off is confirmed in Bedford (Former AcmePacket) Everyone is looking for new opportunities.

Looks like about 2,900 YTD This week so far: 519+ chile 200 CGBU 239 UGBU 70+ HSBGU 10+ Unreported on singles and doubles, let's say abou 100 Prior total CYT 2,300 That gets you about 2,900 CYT Anything missing from this?

Heard that US HW and Tech sales have been pushing out sales reps and KADs, specifically targeting anyone over 55 regardless of performance.

Laid off as of this morning. 3/7/17. All QA/DEV/80% Sustaining. Health care ends at EOD! How nice. Sh--ty severance package but not walked out. Treated humanly for once. Good Luck Oracle is falling!

When AWS went down the world noticed because AWS matters, when oracle cloud goes down, which it Does regularly, nobody gives a sh.. because oracle cloud irrelevant. Eat your heart out LE - you've failed! And no amount of stupid spam from oracle hr is... — read more 

Any layoffs to report this week? Location, group/ function, number of people

Based on the other threads below it is clear to me that oracle has decided to shut down the hardware business as of the new fiscal year starting June 1. Now if they had integrity they would have announced it so that investors, customers and employees... — read more 

Further cuts expected in various HW groups in anticipation of consolidation and JF departure.

JFow and most of his directs will be leaving this late summer.

Cloud = service: oracle outsourcing support to India and Rumania, Fusion = unreliable junk code $10bn revenue: LE = senile mushroom cloud == what a F:Ing JOKE, sad really No future

What's going on, did they take February break this past week and temporarily stop laying people off? Please report any layoffs you're aware of. Keep their feet to the fire with truth and transparency.

Still looking here and lots of recruiter action but nothing solid. 13 years hardware dev engineer.

Anyone else hearing rumors of cuts in X86? I mean near term....Burlington?

Looks like 300 this past week across the world. 2,000 in January bring us to total for the calendar year of 2,300 Keep reporting layoffs as the occur and The Truth will add them up and report out for the world to see You can run but you can't hide LE... — read more 

To close on the story , Oracle SPARC and Solaris is dead. Of course the spin to story (for customers) is that they will be releasing minors, but that's just running in a wind with candle. If I were a customer, I would get off from Solaris , and... — read more 

Shakeup in middleware management? What is going on?

Looks like we have layoffs in China of about 200 pepople and India of 40-50. What about US and Europe - anything to report ? Let's do weekly summaries going forward

I learned to be an SA with Solaris, starting in 1995. Over the years I watched it's decline as Linux matured. I also learned that the open source community was way more valuable as an SA when it came to fixing bugs, getting help, etc.

Heard from reputable source te site will likely be cleared out of HW all sparc and x86 dev to go to SCA. Timing is still in work.

甲骨文冷血裁员，令人心寒！ 2017跨年伊始，橙色空气污染预警，京津冀地区又一次笼罩在严重的雾霾污染中，仿佛一块巨大而又沉重的幕布，堵住每个人的口鼻心肺，令人无法呼吸，无处逃避。 然而对于在Oracle... — read more 

Nice job filing the comp replan lawsuit MJ - exposes these greedy swine and their behavior for the world to see. Good luck hope you get lots of money fro them. go go go!

We're so far behind that our server farms are "new" or non-existent. Cloud infrastructure team scaled-back their grand expansion after realizing that it would be far too large to support the modest subscription growth.