Oracle was once a place where you could build a career and feel safe about your job. Now with each acquisition employees have to be scared of what reorg that acquisition might produce. A friend whose son is applying for a job at Oracle asked me for... — read more 

Below is Oracle's profile taken from this website. Obviously, it is out of date much like everything else at Oracle. Please update, correct or just write anything you want about any or all sections of this profile. Oracle Corp. company... — read more 

Its been 2 years since I left oracle. After working there the first month I hated my job. The company I worked for 5 years to become a part of, I hated after 1 months. Some fucken manager pi---d me off and had it out to me for 6 years. Should have... — read more 

Had to spend hours training them

How Aurora Serverless made the database server obsolete Version 2 of AWS' cloud-native relational database brings signficant improvements https://www.theregister.com/2022/04/29/how_aurora_serverless_made_the/

Hold on.... I see earlier post about the companies LE is buying up.... but gets even better because today Elon Musk tells that LE was one of the financiers of his Twitter buy out..... it's becoming a joke "deal a day Larry"!! How will you... — read more 

It's nothing but a shadow of its former self. We used to work together to achieve a common goal, now all everybody does is point fingers at each other to avoid any responsibility. People feel too comfortable lying and promising things we can't... — read more 

WASHINGTON — Record-low mortgages below 3% are long gone. Credit card rates will likely rise. So will the cost of an auto loan. Savers may finally receive a yield high enough to top inflation. The substantial half-point hike in its benchmark... — read more 

I really don't want to go back. There is no sense in wasting money and time by going to the office, when I can do my job from home without any problems. How many of you would rather take a slightly reduced pay than RTO?

Does anybody here know what is happening with the possible acquisition of yet another company by O? I see LE is one of the players who is bidding up the acquisition cost of an Israeli start up company. After the monumental cost to just close on... — read more 

It was very entertaining for some time, but became silent lately.

Axe-Man, O Axe-Man, come back to us and enlighten us with your Oracle wisdom. Help us to make sense of what is happening around us at Oracle. Help us to navigate through these rough waters, O great exalted One. Axe-Man, come back to us Sir !!!

You heard it here first.

Is anyone a part of RT>MS>MG’s org? What are your thoughts on where this org is going? Any intel? Seems to be getting very heavy higher up. Lots of attrition which means more work with no raises.

After over twenty years working in the database support group at Oracle, I've had enough and ready to move on. Other than just giving notice to quit and walking away without any severance, I am curious if there might be some ideas how to volunteer... — read more 

I wonder why Oracle chooses acquisitions among the opportunities to grow organically or inorganically. Isn't growing a business by acquisitions a greater risk than organic growth?

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https://www.theregister.com/2022/04/25/oracle_software_usage_tools/ Experts in software licensing are warning users against wholly adopting new tools Oracle promises will help map and size on-prem installations in preparation for a move to the... — read more 

Oracle is not a place where you want to work and be mediocre. It is not a place where you should work if you need hugs from upper management just for doing your job (or even doing a good job -- that's expected). Oracle is not the place to work if... — read more 

….is to be found in Gartner’s annual database market share rankings. As you can see, the decline started years ago, and now both Microsoft and Amazon have surpassed Oracle in market share for databases... — read more 

https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Oracle-Solaris-11.4-CBE

A small digression. I recently talked to a friend about how I would like to get out of here and look for a job in a startup, in response to which I received a tip that I should avoid any startups founded by ex Oracle employees. It's funny of... — read more 

They need to start building things instead of buying things. In order to build things you need builders. If you're just buying things all you need - and value - are accountants. When all you do is buy things then the builders become unnecessary and... — read more 

Take a bunch of unrecognizable, distasteful trash, throw it in a big bin, ignite and voila! The perfect representation of Oracle. You can't un-see this. https://thumbs.gfycat.com/BlackandwhiteSmugDragon-mobile.mp4

It’s hard to think of an acquisition that Oracle didn’t destroy. Some say the company does it intentionally, but I can't believe it. Is it really possible that Oracle acquires companies just to destroy them?

Well the deal with Cerner is closing and it is one of the largest acquisitions we have ever made, $28 B, and will all of the 26,000 employee come over for the Oracle ride? And exactly why did we hold and postpone the buy out date anyway?? The... — read more 

I've noticed a trend where posts call for Oracle's "demise" or people being happy we're losing customers and whatnot...why? If you want to lose your job that badly you can just quit. Why wish for everybody who works here (and that's a lot of people)... — read more 

I used to be proud to work here before terrible leadership moves began to take place, which greatly damaged the company and its reputation. I would like this to be that old company again, full of enthusiasm and positive energy. Can Oracle be great... — read more 

The VP business model is archaic and is the primary reason Oracle is failing. The world has evolved from fear management. Japanese management style works, which has been around for decades. It's not rocket science. It's simple team building and... — read more 

Here is the list wiht the source doc (below): Apex IT: valuation undisclosed Humanity: $50.64 million valuation Socrates.ai: $70 million valuation Connecteam: $800 million valuation Box: $4.1 billion market cap Monday.com: $6.34 billion... — read more 

Oracle Hospitality competitors have surpassed O on all levels. Oracle is far more expensive. Product is sold and the gouging begins, charging for everything never stops. Hoteliers are moving to other vendors that offer new features and components for... — read more 

https://www.alternatehistory.com/forum/threads/the-internet-wars-tl.523117/

I’m sick of seeing stock drop. Oracle is driven by Cloud. Cloud can not support Oracle as is. Severe downsizing is necessary . Expenses are too much for Cloud to carry. The other products don’t work unless I’m Missing something. Why are products... — read more 

If oracle doesn’t buy Discord somebody will do soon. Buy it and learn how to do GUI!

When your house of cards falls, and you need to hide, there is always Mexico. I hear people like you often go there. To get there, go "south". If you don't know what "south" is, you'll have to ask someone for directions.

I wrote this a while back: While I was at Oracle, I got an idea for how to solve a problem in the code. The manager I worked for suggested that I submit a patent for it. I had written up the solution to the problem, had sent it to him in an email... — read more 

Yes, you work at Orahole. Yes, you need to record everything.

Hey, developers. Suppose your manager comes to you and says you can copy over someone else's code and file a patent with them, excluding the person who wrote the original code. Maybe they make up some lie about the other person and say they tried... — read more