What I worry about are the customers. I know there are many customers who have no idea that almost all of the engineers working on their product have been laid off. There is no reasonable way to even maintain the products in a timely manner. Forget about adding features some of which are needed (for competition, performance, reducing administrative costs, etc) -- this was just fixing bugs most of which we had to ignore to prioritize the escalations. Open an SR? hah! It just goes onto the ever growing queue. If they make a big fuss, we tell the TSC to tell the customer to officially escalate it. Then the bigger and/or richer company comes first. And that was before this latest RIF.
It more be more ethical of Oracle to first, announce layoffs and officially retire the products and stop selling support contracts. Certain markets like government and financial are locked in the short term and they're hoping to milk that as much possible for now.
Sadly this is the truth. Reposted from @YrW8hDB-vjx .