Anyone hear anything about hardware teams? So far, we are still ok.
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what about proactive support team in Hardware org ? will they get axed
Hardware sales grew last quarter. There might be a hiring freeze but I doubt there will be a rif anytime soon
As long as hw is profitable, and it is, it won't be shut down.
Sun was pretty bad
There is no argument there. The numbers of missteps were countless. I've posted many here myself, with many more. And yes something had to change, they had ample opportunities to correct the ship long before it got that bad. When it got critical, It changed alright, But not for the better. Oracle's track for acquisitions is no better than Sun's. The only difference is that Oracle has their RMDB and ERP business which are high margin, low capital investment businesses which as sustained them better than almost anyone. Now that companies are cutting the cord, how long do you think those gravy trains will continue?
Sun was pretty bad, might as well face the facts on this. I mean, Oracle overall is bad - but the hardware business was run by dinosaurs. Something needed to change.
After 12 years, if it is such a failure, whose fault is that? Sun's been gone all that time and the super geniuses at the top should have figured out how to make it a blockbuster success by now. Hey, even SPARC should have been turned into a major fantastic relevant success, if the benign benevolent leadership are the best and the brightest as we've been constantly told.
The truth is that Oracle had no idea how to manufacture, tried to apply developing software to that process while ignoring any and all advice on what they needed to do, trashed all products they didn't care about or couldn't understand what to do with them, and (and this is most important) when customers saw the Oracle name, ran the other way like the devil himself was biting their rear end because they didn't want to get bled dry with any more Oracle products.
If hardware is to close, that is now on the leadership who failed to make it a success. That was true after the first year, it is even more true now.
X86 hardware can certainly be supplied by DELL/HP/Lenovo, not sure why ORCL continues to develop it's own X-Series platforms (based on X86).
Hardware is considered strategic and untouchable!
Hopefully it is gone for good. And with good riddance.
Larry should have exterminated the Sun employees like rats many years ago.