Reminder that of last quarter, Software was down 20%, and Hardware down 10%. Neither is good, but Hardware is only like what, 15-20% of Oracle's total revenue stream. The Software losses are a much larger drag on overall numbers right now, to put... — read more 

Any plans for major cuts in OMC for 2017? What's known?

So according to the business press oracle's business s---s so badly that they have ramped up the Java audits to generate more revenue? Can anybody internally verify?

President-elect Donald Trump and his advisers met with 13 prominent technology executives at Trump Tower in New York on Wednesday. A pool camera captured introductory remarks from Mr. Trump and the executives. What follows is a transcript: Source:... — read more 

Over the past month, several of us have been able to piece together some of what is transpiring, despite the fact that our workgroup is not based in the US. Some of this remains rumour, but much is already confirmed and underway. Oracle is, as... — read more 

So Hurd claimed on the earning call that he's building an absolutely world class service/ support organization - you folks agree?

The excitement is building: what will they announce ?

So now oracle wants to reduce the minimum pay that it has to pay people and still get subsidies from SAN Antonio from $70k to $50k, cheap, cheap, cheap. Must be these dial for dollars jobs with 50% plus turnover.

Ive been keeping an eye on the number of employees in each cost center for the past few months and im seeing pretty much no fluctuation in the employees in the US. Beginning of October 53623k employees Beginning of November 53611k employees Now 53627... — read more 

"Rather, Oracle is discontinuing work on Project RAPID at the Riata Park facility, and for that reason, must lay off the employees at the Riata Park facility who are assigned to Project RAPID and have not found alternate positions at Oracle." Project... — read more 

Heard 70 people have been laid off in Austin. Anyone have more info?

It seems that IBM supporters are FUDing again against the competition. Knowing that the new coming POWER9 is slower than the current SPARC M7, the IBM crowd has tried to combat the competition with false rumors instead. Fact is, IBM executives have... — read more 

Well, the people developing the ZFS Storage Appliance care and so by proxy the people buying it because let's face it the ZFS Storage Appliance is called so for a reason: ZFS. And that's what the people care for. And in enterprise quality ZFS is... — read more 

https://www.nextplatform.com/2016/06/30/oracle-takes-xeons-sparc-s7/ While I find it hard to believe because this article shows oracles plans to go big with sparc. The article under estimates the amount of competition oracle has for those same... — read more 

The forthcoming earnings call should be very interesting: will oracle come clean on the layoffs and product terminations, discussed in the other threads, or will they try to bluff their way through with cheerleading. Interesting securities law and... — read more 

Many people have underestimated the decreased demand in enterprise IT spending overall. My guess is even the cloud business will not move as quick under these economic conditions. It will be interacting what is reported on dec 15. And follow on... — read more 

could sombody post a link where i can find more than here: http://languageio.com/index.php/blog/vegas-booth-2016/ I do not want to registere there! TIA

In case transfer to another team during RIF, he/she can still get the package?

Oracle is a company with significant overseas cash reserves, in the top 5 and didn't go crazy during the election. A big part of the message was about making it easier for companies to bring their overseas cash back. Regardless, feet need to be held... — read more 

Seems most of HW product dev is on hold. All meetings cancelled and people are openly gossiping. Management has already announced that the situation is difficult, projects will be reviewed and some will be cancelled.

Catz attending SV exec meeting with Trump on Dec 14th - good opportunity for oracle to explain its approach to US jobs/ layoffs. Opportunity to send Trump a briefing in advance ?

Lot of FUD here. 1) Top500 supercomputers are huge clusters. Linux scales well on clusters. HPC clustered workloads run number crunching for loops on a same set of grid points, over and over again. Everything can be run in parallel in the cpu cache... — read more 

But they lied. People are getting Rif'd left and right. People are slowly disappearing.

Linux has very bad scalability. Linux scales excellent on SGI UV3000 and similar servers, but they are scale-out clusters capable of only running clustered HPC workloads such as number crunching, BI analytics, etc. Such clusters can have 10.000s of... — read more 

It appears based on many posts that in he next few weeks several SPARC dev teams will be axed most likely sites Santa Clara, Austin and Burlington in US other teams worldwide. If anyone wants to add or correct to this to warn fellow oracle mates, do... — read more 

http://money.cnn.com/2016/12/04/investing/donald-trump-tax-jobs/ In a series of tweets Sunday morning, Trump pledged to lower corporate taxes across the board. But he also said he would charge a hefty 35% tax for "any business that leaves our country... — read more 

Our own public institutions benefited from companies pushing for h1-b's because it fills their coffers and funds the presidents huge salaries. Tech companies been hiring at lower wages from a nice supply of our own universities. As far back as 2013... — read more 

Should have already been a blood bath. http://www.informationweek.com/strategic-cio/10-top-tech-companies-poised-for-massive-layoffs/d/d-id/1325015?image_number=9 2017 will likely be the year these projections come to fruition.

https://www.thestreet.com/story/13910622/1/amazon-shows-its-cloud-business-is-still-in-a-league-of-its-own.html Amazon does it all better and cheaper. The model seems to be blowing out the competition left and right.

Being actively recruited for hw dev jobs. I'm at Cisco which is going to hell also. I don't want them to land in a bad spot.

A friend working a Oracle told me a few years ago, that Oracle has the policy not to comment on rumors like this one (especially on some strange website). The reason she told me is simple: Once you start commenting on one, you give more credibility... — read more 

Stop spreading lies and getting everyone worked up. Sparc is just fine.

HPE, Dell etc etc