https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/companies/pentagon-issues-forceful-rebuke-of-oracle-as-debate-over-a-massive-federal-contract-turns-caustic/ar-AAF3n26 The Pentagon issued an unusually strong rebuke of Oracle over the weekend, accusing the company... — read more 

Oracle is lumped together as part of others. https://www.gartner.com/en/newsroom/press-releases/2019-07-29-gartner-says-worldwide-iaas-public-cloud-services-market-grew-31point3-percent-in-2018

No major layoffs this past week. Total since 6/1-2016 remains at 24,450. Stay cool in the heat everybody and keep looking for exciting new opportunities.

AWS -33% Microsoft-16% Google -8% IBM-6% Alibaba -5% Source: https://www.theregister.co.uk/2019/07/26/halfofallpubliccloudmoneygoestoamazonandmicrosoft/

So it looks like O’s cloud strategy has been scaled down from providing general cloud capabilities to the much more limited Exa for Oracle DB. More realistic in terms of O’s ability to deliver but clearly LE has given up on competing with AWS and... — read more 

AWS missed earnings targets and Amazon's stock price fell 2%. They're feeling the impact of ADW.

How is severence calculated? If I came in from an acquisition two years ago, and I was with that company three years prior, is that 2 or 5 years of tenure which counts towards that calculation?

Any layoffs coming in OCI or is it safe to join OCI now?

About 100 people laid off in Customer Success this week. That brings the total since 6/1/2016 to 24,450. Should be no question that layoffs continue, the numbers vary from week to week, but the direction is clear. Keep looking folks, keep looking... — read more 

Call me paranoid, but I think they’re going to increase the layoffs in the last 3 or 4 months of 2019. There have been a lot of layoffs this year and it seems to me that they will want to conclude the year and go into 2020 with a significantly... — read more 

The Empire Strikes Back: Trump discovers $10bn JEDI cloud deal may go to nemesis Jeff Bezos, demands probe https://www-theregister-co-uk.cdn.ampproject.org/c/s/www.theregister.co.uk/AMP/2019/07/18/jedicloiudwhite_house/

The truth is that any place is better. No job security doesn't exist out there. But toxicity in the work environment, at the levels it exists at O, is truly outside of the norm. The biggest issue you will face is that having O on your resume in... — read more 

Oracle database has been, for a long time, one of the most difficult to change elements in any IT architecture. A big part of the Consulting and ACS revenue has been related to upgrade, patch and maintain databases. A sizeable customer has to... — read more 

https://insights.dice.com/2019/07/15/oracle-software-engineers-pay/ Oracle Entry-Level Software Engineers: Solid Pay for a Hard Job

We're losing people left and right. Is this an Oracle-wide issue?

A lot of the old products like RMS has not had a major on prem release since 2016. Is it in maintenance mode? Has Oracle given up on it? What does the future hold for RGBU, as the SaaS adoption hasn't been that great?

Looks like reality finally caught up with the Customer Success org (or whatever they are called now) and about half of the org has been put on 30 day notices. The Stormbreaker axe fell hard and swift. Good luck, peeps.

I see that the layoffs i relatively smaller portions are happening quite often,and are restricted to certain locations and departments. The fact is that they are happening in this manner more and more often. Is that the new strategy and the new... — read more 

Some small but no major layoffs this week. Total since 6-1/2016 is 24,350. Keep looking and accept no imitations of the layoff report.

Communications (Tekelec/Acme) and Hospitality (Micros) GBU's have seen some small rif's over Q4 & Q1 and seems like many sales and exec's are leaving on their own too. SVP GM of Hospitality just resigned to be CEO at a much smaller company which... — read more 

Surprise, surprise. With the Israel startup accelerator now canned, the rest will go too as the Big O allows any startup to join from the kitchen... — read more 

Comment on other threads talks about an incoming layoff, anyone has info about it? When would it take place and where?

To nobody’s surprise, the Federal Claims Court judge dismissed Oracle’s complaint on the Jedi cloud contract, allowing Pentagon to announce the winner as early as next month. Hint: the winner won’t be oracle! Eat your heart out LE - now the whole... — read more 

And is it paid all at once?

Well in typical Oracle tradition no warnings, just a tomorrow is your last day. 4 gone in a group of 9 spread across 3 sites. Honestly happy to be out of the morale k--ling atmosphere. Nobody is safe, 2 of us have a combined 40 years with Oracle... — read more 

I'm done being a sitting duck and just waiting to be cut, I know it's coming as my volume of work keeps declining... I've updated my resume, and I'm ready to start searching for an option to leave on my own. I'm just not sure where to start, to be... — read more 

Tx LE

This one cracked me up: "Anticipating the Merger of Apple and Oracle" By Rob Enderle - Jul 8, 2019 10:01 AM PT - https://www.technewsworld.com/story/86110.html Here is the wrap paragraph, you can open the link if you want to read the whole thing:... — read more 

Weird rumors around about MSFT buying ORCL... Not that weird... MarketCap is compatible... 1T$ vs 0.18T$... Business too (MSFT may want to boost their enterprise market)

Is it naive to expect that this is ever going to stop? On the other hand it’s not logical for a company to continue eating up its very own organs until total destruction. Can we ever expet things to stabilise?

Rumors, gossip and some just simply made up stuff get's posted and when one thing out of 10 comes true, they say see we told you, we're always right.

Oracle doesn't have a problem laying off people. It has a problem laying off people openly. This is a way for them to sweep the layoffs under rug. I would expect big layoffs this coming year. They are about out of money, at least they can't spend... — read more 

No major layoffs this past week. Total since 6/1/2016 remains at 24,336. If O disagrees with thus number, publish the official one. O’s future is not getting better so keep looking folks, keep looking.

https://www.techrepublic.com/article/gartner-on-premises-is-the-new-legacy-in-databases/ ............ AWS now tops IBM and for all its chest-thumping bravado, for the first time Oracle's perch atop the database market seems shaky. Unfortunately for... — read more 

I don’t want to preach the “get out while you can” story, especially keeping in mind that I’m also an Oracle employee that isn’t really doing anything about getting out of the company, even though I know that Oracle as we remember , no longer exists... — read more 

Share Buybacks Could Be Coming To An End Another way the company goosed earnings per share was via share repurchases. During the quarter, management repurchased 112 million shares at a total cost of $6 billion... — read more 

Why are people being transferred to Oracle Global Services? They say it makes no difference, but a separate company where Amex cards had to be re issued in the new company name. Is a big split/sell off on its way? Post ID: @ZOkpRYn-1oha So, why is... — read more 

https://www.morningstar.com/news/dow-jones/TDJNDN_201907027585/sp-downgrades-oracle-citing-debt-due-to-buybacks.html S&P Global Ratings downgraded Oracle Corp. (ORCL) to A+ from AA- as stock buybacks have increased the software company's debt. ... — read more 

Trying to interview with OCI team in Seattle. What is the future of OCI at this point?