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

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.