Thread regarding Oracle Corp. layoffs

This week the Israeli government signed a contract with Amazon and Google, the happy winners of the first tender in the "Nimbus Project" for the provision of cloud services to the Israeli government sector. The winners will be required to establish cloud areas in Israel (Region) in the next two years; Until established, the winners will provide cloud services from the Netherlands, Germany and Ireland. The tender is valid for 7 years, with the possibility of extensions up to a period of 23 years in total.

At the press conference held today, the Accountant General hinted that the price of providing the services from the winners was set at less than 80% of the price that appears in the global price lists. However, it is not known how many other governments paid in similar tenders.
The losers in the tender, Oracle and Microsoft, petitioned the High Court for an extension of the deadline. This petition means that they reserve the right to appeal in the future, but the Treasury clarified today that no legal proceedings are currently underway. In control processes that have not been done in any procurement procedure, and that they feel very confident about the procedure.They say that the legal proceedings will not follow the engagement in the tender.

Bottom line: Oracle Israel employees in the Gov/Edu (sales/PS/SC/Support/BD) org and even other customers segments look for new jobs in FY22

It took almost 2 years to RP to realize that the 💩 IL country leadership is a low performing lazy, liars and deceitful team protecting themself only.
This tender lost flooded all the 💩.

This is the license sales managers that for years deceived the Oracle management that it was worth participating in the tender https://www.pc.co.il/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/7517.jpg

Who will also be "downgrade" ?

Finally after 8 years of low performing management an internal letter sent by RP, SVP UK, Ireland, Israel and the Banlox states, among other things, that Oracle thanks UN for his service in the Israeli branch and for his achievements. It was later stated that Navon will temporarily replace by EF. It was also stated that in the coming months, EF will stay in Tel Aviv for a long time to promote the business issues of the Israeli branch.
The reason for the announcement and changes in the company's top is that this is part of an overall and global move that Oracle is making to split the country leaders powers and divide the role into two areas: Licensing Operations Manager - Oracle's core business, and Cloud Operations Manager - the company's fastest growing area.

It seems that dealing with the Nimbus tender, the establishment of the data center and the legal battle will be on the agenda of the new interim director.

We are hiring for some open positions.
Unlike in other countries here in Israel, we retain employees with more than 15 years of experience in the organization and do not fire them.

Google won this tender because of their capabilities . Oracle wouldn't have even been on the shortlist.

A real cloud is something you can't fake, like Oracle does with "OCI regions".
Putting a few racks in a colo (Bynet in Jerusalem) and calling it a region might fool some customers, and you can add capacity as they order it.

The entire management of the office is under pressure who leaks to the local press and who publishes here on the site.

I don't believe it. I don't think this site in on anyone's radar at Oracle. No one is really leaking anything. Ax man's posts don't appear to be correct.

The list of redundant employees for FY22 been prepared. Again all the hit are the low level sales managers and not the veteran directors.

Your local HR business partner team are here to support you.

The entire management of the office is under pressure who leaks to the local press and who publishes here on the site.

Employee emails and browsing are monitored by Michael Fu-s and the C&E teams

There may have been problems with the JEDI deal but you still wouldn't have won, Oracle told by US govt . They were not the cloud we were looking for, says DoD in brief to Supreme Court

https://www.theregister.com/2021/05/06/jedi_supreme_court/

This is same situation as the Israel’s Project Nimbus (Government cloud). SC and LE try to influence politician and government official but instead of investing in real cloud operation they invest in Lawyers ,contracts , revenue administrations all lead and managed by a messy sales organization that has not made any real sales

Your friendly local HR and all the senior Uzi gang is on the watch

RIF and PIP are soon to be introduce.
Local HR director is working on reducing in the low grade employees and not the >20 years M levels doing 0.

https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/infrastructure/new-google-cloud-region-in-israel

I have been approached to join G , What is yours experience with working there ?

After winning the tender: Google announced the establishment of a cloud infrastructure in Israel
Despite the official announcement, Google, one of the winners of the Nimbus tender, has not yet given a launch date.

What Oracle will do with their investment in OCI in Israel that is not in use anymore ?
RIF soon ???

All the local Oracle Israel employees has been forced to promote in all their social media the following PR https://en.globes.co.il/en/article-oracle-to-open-israel-data-center-this-summer-1001368667

The country manager and his puppies investing in marketing of their failure

Some insight from the IL office. Panic and chaos as everything they sold to Oracle management for the last two years and the amount of money they poured into the tender especially when they knew there was no chance of bidding or even been part of the winning company. SC is personally involved in the negotiations.

They all deserved it.

What a PR joke ... LOL

Now the SVP UK, Israel, The Netherlands, BeLux announced in his LinkedIn announced "I'm pleased to confirm that we’re well underway with building our new data region in #Israel and we’ve made excellent progress since construction ...."
This is a colocation DC but they invested million of $$ in contracts.

https://www.timesofisrael.com/google-aws-win-1-2-billion-israel-tender-for-cloud-services/amp/

As expected the winners of the tender were announced – Oracle is out for good

Microsoft Israel filed today (19.4.2021) an administrative petition against the Government Procurement Administration regarding the Nimbus tender (the government cloud); Other respondents are other companies that competed in the tender: Google, Amazon Web Services, AWS and Oracle

In response, the Israeli government established a process in which it will continue its activities with the winning candidates until they complete the entire process and then within 60 days all the companies that did not win the tender will be able to level their claims against the committee.

This process give the local huge team of managers , SC, OCI and sales additional 3 month of surviving before they will be redundant

Let's justify all the expenses on lawyers and the huge EMEA Deputy Regional Compliance Office

The local office also have hired private investigation companies to look for sl▯▯e in the tender auction editors and against the competing companies.

Typical Oracle business conduct

A decision of the Honorable Judge was given: approves an extension of time to file a petition in accordance with the agreement submitted between the petitioner (Oracle) and the respondent.

But as I know the government they will not forgive and will not forget what Oracle have done.

There was significant pressure to select a provider that will offer the highest level service to the nation over the long term. An inferior provider offering poor services would be considered a disaster for the nation’s technological capacity. The Nimbus system would be used to house huge amounts of sensitive data for government institutions and ministries, improving efficiency and reducing bureaucracy. This is not for Oracle style

For security reasons, the Israeli data center would have to operate independently of any other cloud service region in the world, with the capacity to provide all the nation’s long-term needs. Amazon is also seen as being prepared to make a much larger investment in Israel’s infrastructure than any other competitor not like Oracle

Oracle knows that they will never win this tender. The impact is that in the next 1-3 years they can close 70% of the business locally

Instead of money for lawyers they would put more money in an envelope

It will not end without a struggle. Shortly after being disqualified from the Nimbus government cloud tender, Oracle petitioned the Jerusalem District Court on Saturday as an administrative court. The petition was filed yesterday by Oracle through attorney Tomer Reif of ZAG, in which Oracle requests an "extension of time" to review the tender documents.

The petition was filed against the government procurement manager, who is the auctioneer, but also against Google and Amazon the winners of the Nimbus tender - although no official announcement has been made on the matter.

SEC should investigate the third-party payments that created the risk that the funds could be used for illicit purposes such as bribery or embezzlement in this tender

Google is building a region and hiring people before they win the deal. That's how hyperscalers do it, build capacity ahead of demand.

We only do "if they come we will build it" because our CEO is an accountant.

As part of the country/region I can assure you that the been violation of the anti-corruption and business courtesy guidelines we all been trained accepted.

The main concern is the the top corporate executives SC, DD (Evp and General Counsel) and senior management are aware of the practices and provide the local management green light for several years and activity covering up for unknown reason.

I'm leaving this "hall of fame" and move on to a better business culture.

financially engineered country with LE & SC direct support

Oracle will soon initiate an audit for violations of its on-premises software license within the IL government and the defense sector in order to get some OCI penalties

Is Google already confident of winning the Nimbus tender, the country's largest cloud tender? The job board published by the company implies that it is. These days Google and Amazon (one or both of them) are close to winning the big tender that the state is holding for the gradual transfer of government IT to the cloud. This comes after the disqualification of Oracle and Microsoft which also competed in the tender.

There is no official announcement from the state about the win yet, but the job board that Google publishes for Israeli territory implies that the company is definitely preparing for it. The company has advertised a number of jobs all of which are classified under "cloud, public sector".

predatory sales and audit tactics will not lead to win any cloud contracts

Is it not the same Tech Sales and county manager who were involved at the time in the muted compliance affair ?

SC will be traveling next week to visit the country and try to "influence" but it is not DJT territory anymore

Oracle Autonomous Layoff

Microsoft and Oracle will not be out
There are a lot of workloads that are supposed to run on them. Why make complicated and unnecessary conversions.
Just trying to get companies to lower prices
Insect negotiations of the goverment

Rumors on layoffs after the Pushover vacation but will not be affecting managers >M4

Contract Dispute, a Tragic Death: What Happened to Microsoft Israel This Summer?

https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/business/.premium-contract-dispute-and-a-tragic-death-behind-israel-s-microsoft-exodus-1.8371983

But the local Oracle Israel office that had even worse compliance issues received SC direct protection and C&E cover up.