LE was never popular but was respected, until he picked MH to run his company in 2010. MH systematically replaced workers with college grads and off shored resources in development, support, sales and engineering.
There are so many convoluted legacy products at Oracle that no one can possibly know them all. Oracle products have gone from complex, to broken. Very few if anyone inside Oracle understands Oracle products. Getting good production support is next to impossible. And this is on the core products like the Oracle RDBMS, RAC, golden gate etc... It gets worse the further down the product list. E-Business Suite, JD Edwards, PeopleSoft, Siebel ... good freakin luck finding anyone with any product knowledge to help with installation or product support questions.
That brings us to the latest Oracle creation the Oracle cloud. Its a lot of legacy strung together by c-ap code written last minute called IPaaS. Integration platform as a service. How about KCaaS? Kludge Code as a service. The data centers are rented, the networking is hodge podge, few really understand it and even fewer can get anything working. And this is inside Oracle. How are the customers going to have any chance understanding anything.
It used to take an Oracle bus, a ton of experts from each product team to answer the questions, now the bus has no wheels. The experts are gone, replaced with spread sheet and power point jockeys who cant answer any real questions.
TK just hit the eject button. He wont be the only one. MH is captain of this sinking ship. TK is one of five execs named in the City of Sunrise Firefighters' Pension Fund's lawsuit against Oracle, which alleges the firm overstated the success of its cloud business revenue.
We all know its true. From the Whistle blower in 2016, to rumors of SEC investigation, to the reports here on theLayoff.com, reports on the register, and anyone in Sales who offered a support reduction for cloud credits... we all know its true.
https://www.theregister.co.uk/2017/02/10/oracle_settles_court_case_with_fired_cloud_services_financials_whistleblower/
Oracle has reached a settlement with a former finance manager who alleged she had been fired for refusing to follow what she believed to be unlawful accounting practices that bumped up the IT giant's cloud numbers.
In a filing [PDF] on Wednesday, the District Court of Northern California was told the dispute between Oracle and Svetlana Blackburn had been settled in principle.
The lawsuit was brought by Blackburn in June last year. She had worked as a senior finance manager covering SaaS and cloud revenue in North America for Oracle, a role from which she claimed she was fired for refusing to artificially inflate the division's sales.
Now along iwth high ranking managers we have executives abandoning ship... September 13th will be an interesting earnings call.
Oracle is on fire, MH set the blaze and we all get to watch it burn. No one is crying...