It's pretty clear they are in panic mode. They have acquired so many companies and without any real dividend the stock price will start to decline. This will put oracle in a vulnerable spot. They have to get costs down. How much did they spend on... — read more 

My estimates is about 2100 layoff as impact to hw project cancelations and another ?? On the Solaris side. Any wagers?

Our best efforts have not been able to verify the rumours. Oracle has denied it. A user tells us Solaris will be moved to maintenance mode and resources moved to Linux. That’s not quite enough for us to do a story. One of our sources is personally... — read more 

In light of new administration hunting down misuse of visa program and the offshoring behaviors. Add this trend in server market. Cloud winners will emerge from this tech downturn. I doubt it will be oracle of USAaybe oracle of India.

This was obviously coming for some time. All of the new Solaris development since Oracle took control has been very meager. As an example, there have been no system ABI changes in the past six+ years (which is why OpenIndiana can run Solaris 11... — read more 

I don't get it. He did it at HP and now at Oracle. He hires kids who know nothing about IT, spends millions to train them, pays them in peanuts, and lays off talented workers who are older. They wonder why our revenue is declining!

More confirmation that layoffs are being done weekly and steathily to avoid reporting laws + news articles. No warning given, just phone call and a fedex package

Does SPARC make money and if yes, what's the margin. We have opposing opinions on this - let's discuss here...

https://www.thelayoff.com/t/KBEVoB1

All hands meetings being cancelled on orders from legal to prevent news from spreading. Hardware teams being told to cease development. There will be no Solaris 12, final release will be 11.4. Orders coming straight from Larry. No info on timing yet. — read more 

More to come. No one is safe from legacy to cloud teams. Any hiring is to replace with cheaper labor more expensive employees. Post rumors and confirmations as No warnings at all have been given in advance of cuts and project cancelations.

If H1-b becomes risk they will accelerate job moves from US sites. As well as transfer major projects.

From HQ to Austin to EU.

Anyone know if they are planning Micros dev redundancies?

Does someone have reliable info on possible cuts and layoffs in Redwood City.

Hello All - I work for a small company that was acquired a while ago. Nobody got laid off as a result of acquisition, but I wanted to see if other people had similar experience. What I heard through the grapevine is that Oracle typically waits a bit... — read more 

Loosely defined is how they get away with not having to go on the record actually defining a strategy and new vision. It leaves them unaccountable to everyone but the top brass going them cost savings to boost earning reports for a failure to boost... — read more 

Has Safra had enough of Larry, Hurd and the whole oracle mess and is looking to join the trump administration ? She certainly doesn't need the money and being the co-CEO can't possibly be that much fun.

Lots of very experienced and skilled employees have been layed off, in EMEA and Australia. They have been replaced by cheap juniors from romania and india. they don't even bother logging to gcca (the tool used for communicating with csts) and take... — read more 

I am gonna rant here, hear me out if you'd like. I am left leaning and have been all my life. But look at what's happening at Oracle employees over last three years - all of that made me not vote for the left including HRC. Anyhow, we are in a rigged... — read more