I keep seeing the term "Dead Wood" being mentioned. What these people don't understand is THEY are the "Dead Wood." Go ahead and beat yourselves on the chest watching others get laid off or fired believing it is all on them. Having spent years at Oracle I watched excellent people get let go due to business changes or just wanting to cut costs. Your time is coming unless you are well connected. Most people worth their salt get worn down and are ready to look for better opportunities themselves or welcome being let go to force them to overcome their reluctance to leave. The others think they are untouchable and don't realize their time is coming.
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Oracle has run out of time. “All” of the previous acquisition units were never a long term solution, SUN, BEA, Pillar, Micros, Cerner.
That is spot on. Sun seems to garner an inordinate amount of ire from the old guard and apologists at Oracle. but let's face it, after twelve years, it is no longer Sun's problem. After two years you can't make it work, that is on YOU, not your acquisition.
Same goes for Pillar, Micros and all the rest. In all of the years Since the buyout, how many Micros POS systems have I seen in retails establishments? exactly one. And that establishment is no longer in business. When a clear majority of your acquisitions have failed, it's not the conquered that is to blame. There is one common denominator here and we all know what that is.
If 0 had an ounce of introspection, they would try to understand what is going wrong and try to make corrections. But we know that will never happen, that arrogance begins at the top. The Toyota Production System? Value Stream Mapping? That is for sissies.
0 had one product when and where noone else had, and are still riding that wave, thanks to inertia and companies reluctance to switch. Now that the technology is making switching much less painless, That decades long edge is rapidly disappearing.
Oracle has run out of time. “All” of the previous acquisition units were never a long term solution, SUN, BEA, Pillar, Micros, Cerner.
They simply buy any product and immediately gut it and reap as much profit from the carcasses as possible before the customer realizes they no longer get the service or features they once took for granted. They are a predatory business that destroys decent business models and replaces them with greedy profit margins. At some point that model fails. It appears that point is now for Oracle. Any business unit based on another companies idea is doomed from the start. It’s not IF, but WHEN it happens. No one is safe from the business necromonger called Oracle.
Not even Oracle itself.
There is nothing good or positive to be said about Sun, and there really hasn’t been for over 20 years now.
All these Sun hangers on at Oracle are dinosaurs living 20+ years in the past and dreaming of their glory years of the mid to late 1990s.
These remaining Sun hangers on really should have been taken out to pasture and put out of their misery a good 10 years ago……..
I am technically “deadwood”. HW from STK-Sun purchase (such a good expenditure of $9B).
How many time did Sun try to get into the Storage business and went splat? I honestly lost count. Well at least you made it this far. Just make it to retirement and don't look back. You might turn into a pillar of 9-track tape.
Well connected is not going to work, this time.
World affairs and bad management caused this mess.
Favoritism and corrupt VP’s are responsible for this failure.
If you call others Stupid, then you are a stupid.
If you call others Selfish, then you are selfish.
If you call others Deadwood, you are already deadwood.
Only time proves this
I am technically “deadwood”. HW from STK-Sun purchase (such a good expenditure of $9B). As LE wanted, we melt away: budget better equal expenses or else….Fortunately the retirement brigade continues to match our down turn in service income. Just wait until those big customers get wind of EOL products they just bought! Fun times ahead! Layoffs are always in our future!
Even the click and stick with high pals in the mountains are in jeopardy.
Very recent history has proven that to be true in a couple of cases already.
OP is so right.
I am surrounded by so many layers of so called support systems and programs, all of which are designed to help, but in reality, simply turn into a reporting quagmire. All they do is get in the way of doing my job! These admin layers (and their reports up to the VP) are the dead wood.
Without the so called ‘dead wood’ the brass would have tables and chairs to be important around.
If you are not right now in a click and stick with your high pals in the mountains you are on the way out of the building.