Yesterday the head of Oracle Hardware Sales laid many staffers off via conference call...."if you are on this call, then your position has been eliminated"..."don't let the door hit you on the way out"...lovely.
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"Too bad nobody's buying Solaris. Or the hardware it runs on."
That isn't really true. The systems group's are in a slow decline, but their sales are still in the billions. But the mass layoffs didn't give customers any warm fuzzies, that's for sure,
Old news
Solaris is the best enterprise OS - period.
Too bad nobody's buying Solaris. Or the hardware it runs on.
Short list: Too many overlays positions without any responsibilities and accountability , poor sales leadership (mainly failing Tech sales managers that been promoted into systems) , expensive support/services, corrupted alliance and channels, Tech sales that destroy the infrastructure sales, useless OD sales, Intel marketing funds that used for cheating and lying, no option to financially engineering of "on premise clouds"
Good luck to all the survivors , wish you all great Q3/Q4 and then you are all history.
Oracle hardware is the best in the industry. Oracle revived a failing SPARC chip and made it the fastest chip for enterprise applications. The Engineered Systems, especially Exadata are outstanding. Solaris is the best enterprise OS - period.
What killed Oracle's infrastructure business are sales compensation plans that created infighting where the tech (DB) teams almost always prevailed, a shifting market (cloud), and the ever-present march to faster/more capacity/cheaper hardware. Selling 50% more capacity per year at 10% less revenue is not a viable business model. The infrastructure sales team could not overcome this trend with with the software groups shutting them out of accounts and their hands tied behind their backs. It was even worse for the storage sales teams.
The employees did not fail. Oracle failed. Larry failed. Even he, the mighty Larry could not find a way to monetize the hardware business. Failure belongs to him, not the ones left in the wake of the tidal wave.
the reality is Oracle is a place for top management to make millions and treat everyone below them like cattle. in some cases a slaughter is in order. nothing new here for this culture. A culture of liers and angry little men running it.
Would it make you feel better if you got a hug?
You’re in sales. Rejection should be part of the grind. Wear your bigboy pants and realize you and your position are no longer needed.
Yep, that is what the call sounded like. It was the worst way to tell anyone that they have been layed off, completely without any concern for the people that have been working for you or their families just before Christmas.
Also I have yet to receive a call back from my former boss, also a piece of sh--.
I'm collecting the calls. Its something so horrible and shocking that people can't really believe it happened. Playing the audio lets them see its real and how it feels.
So we can make fun of the idiot exec to make ourselves feel better
why does it matter?
Did anyone get a recording of the mass con call?