.......It's a second-rate Mergers and Acquisitions shop with a very large legal and contract enforcement department.” This comment from another thread tells you all you need to know. Oracle’s procedures for incorporating and assimilating new... — read more 

It was never more obvious that the company is in a bad place, than it is at this moment. So why do they put their efforts into covering up the true state that the company is in. If more people were familiar with the truth, maybe more resources and... — read more 

I'm not challenged. At all. I feel like my job is now strictly about fixing other people's mistakes in outdated areas that should have been upgraded or completely replaced long ago. More than ever I understand people who are deciding to leave on... — read more 

Would like to know if there's any lay off news for SE hub at the end of Q4 and in the coming FY20.

Oralce, An Agile, Dynamic Company Able To Respond To Any Challenge By Laying Off Half Of Staff REDWOOD CITY—Calling his employees a lean, versatile team capable of being fired at a moment’s notice, Oracle CEO Hark Murd described his technology firm... — read more 

Are they still renting 3rd party warehousing or did they build their own centers that are staffed by Oracle? It's been said that Oracle has serious issues with data security and the cloud provisioning management has all quit to move to AWS or Google... — read more 

I recall we "pivoted to cloud" about 4 years ago and tried to force customers off onprem. It was so unsuccessful that we gave cloud credits and started shady financial cover ups to pretend we had customers buying cloud. I don't see this approach... — read more 

What’s the headcount right now and how close are we to the number that is below 100k employees? If the goal of the layoffs is to go under that number how much more people need to be cut for the company to reach the number of employees that is planned... — read more 

Well, looks like the cat is out of the bag: oracle laying off 1,600 people at R&D center in China and it made the news in mainstream media. That brings the total since 6/1-2016 to 23,686, with more to come before Q4 comes to an end. Keep looking... — read more 

The Fujitsu SPARC M12-1 features: The Fujitsu SPARC M12-1 server is designed to reduce total cost of ownership (TCO), rapidly deploy new business services, and reduce server sprawl by consolidating existing systems more cost-effectively and more... — read more 

The sale occurred on May 8. This sale was not pursuant to his 10b5-1 plan and the expiration date to sell wasn’t until July 2. Q4 results might be a little murky. Haha

Huawei is about to take on Oracle in the database market https://www.fastcompany.com/90347709/huawei-is-about-to-take-on-oracle-in-the-database-market

Many companis have bigger market and revenue such as Apple, MS... They only hired one CEO. Why Oracle need two(if not three) CEOs?

We had some early products the same way Microsoft had early Windows Mobile. When AWS came and changed the world we arrogantly sneered that we already did that, the same way that Microsoft did when the iPhone launched. By the time we realised it was... — read more 

"... the company’s head of human resources for the Asia-Pacific region announced that per orders from the U.S. headquarters, Oracle was planning to make some major changes to optimize its business structure, which would inevitably result in huge... — read more 

Lots of rumors are now circulating on a 10% RIF this summer followed by a major restructuring plan for FY20 to take Oracle to sub 100,000 employees Globally. The rumors are triangulated in ways not seen before. Business partners have been asked to... — read more 

One more senior pm on its way out. VA!

The Senior Director of Human Resources for Oracle in Canada announced on April 29th the following Global Corporate Project. I will say off the top, it is very suspicious that this restructuring is being lead by HR. After all, it is HR who are... — read more 

There is definitely a huge change is coming to EMEA. ORACLE has started pushing employees out of ORACLE proper to an ORACLE branch named Oracle Global Services, this is for all employees that are in services scope. This is going to make it easier to... — read more 

Title says it all

Anyone has any proof of harassment at OMCS? I have one director from US at OMCS and gathering proofs / mails to put all to HR.

There are whispers of another rif. Wondering if anyone has ideas of timings.

I was laid off two months ago and I already have a new job that came with a nice $10k raise. being let go turned out to be a blessing in disguise for me. Just wanted to share this and let people know that being laid off is not the end of the world... — read more 

I have been with the company for many years and haven't received a decent raise or bonus in ages. Oracle Medical insurance is going up, while Larry Ellison has billions in his pocket. Don't you think he should throw some money to his employees? We... — read more 

We (or some of us) survived, or no one can avoid the next wave come in July?

I’m a cloud employee, and I see layoffs left and right, not to mention people leaving on their own. Definitely the headcount is shrinking,so I was wondering if there is any information about how much Cloud employees were let go, and what is the... — read more 

who get this package? how to get this package? by 121 talk? tough to HR? I want this package...teach me.

Oracle China R&D is shutting down its office this month with more than 1600 employees

Here is Gartner’s take (Magic Quadrants) on Cloud DBs, Storage, and Infrastructure… We are doing very good on the DB side, Storage/Infra is not that good… Operational Database Management Systems... — read more 

Lets face it. If we weren’t bleeding money on multiple fronts we wouldn’t be in a position that people need to be let go, good, productive people, that made a difference. My guess is that Cloud swallowed a huge amount of money and didn’t produce any... — read more 

No major layoffs this past week. Total since 6/1/216 remains at 22,086. Keep looking, keep looking!

I'm wondering how many people received this email?

Over the past few months, there have been questions concerning the future of the SPARC/Solaris platform that we’d like to address. First, in terms of Oracle Solaris, its Premier Support will last until at least 2034. In fact, in October 2017, Fujitsu... — read more 

We are all aware that things aren’t looking good. I suppose we all made peace with the fact that layoffs are an everyday part of our employment at Oracle. The more important question to me is how did we get to this state. Where exactly did the... — read more 

It’s official Q4 results plain s---, oracle is nowhere in the cloud business and sales old-fashioned oracle are gone. Layoffs coming for sure but never made a company better off - oracle had had ongoing layoffs since 6/1/2016 and revenues remain... — read more 

Sales guys comparing notes... Q4 looks bleak. Most customers have put Oracle projects in "containment mode." This means no new licensing if at all possible. Support stream is all that's keeping this Q4 from an inky black hole. Some EULA renewals will... — read more 

New layoffs will come, that’s a fact. Don’t think anyone would want to argue that. Chances are they’re coming sooner rather than later. Has anyone heard or does anyone have an opinion on will here be any method will they be led by? Will they be... — read more 

It's bad to have oracle on your resume. I had a recruiter laugh at me because I was at Oracle. It's known as the "country club". Honestly, anything you say you accomplished at Oracle is considered a joke at other places. There is no reason to ever... — read more