https://www.marketwatch.com/amp/story/guid/FBAC017A-024E-11E9-B37D-3CE90D27BEE0

Woohoo! I hope everyone got a bonus this time. Hahaha... Did you?

Flat revenues and profits, no growth. As for cloud specific numbers always very suspect. So nothing to get excited about here. With all the layoffs,’profits should have been way up, clearly things just aren’t working.

All the pessimism has been beaten today as Oracle emerges as one of the premier cloud players.

With Christmas next week and no layoffs last week (or two, can't recall if there were any the previous one,) is it safe to say that we can finally relax and celebrate in peace? I've been so stressed out this whole year that it would be nice to let go... — read more 

Microsoft was heading down a dark path and was failing repeatedly but turned themselves around and was most certainly, not a well loved company. Gates knew when to step aside and focus on other things and salvage his reputation - turn it around even... — read more 

No major layoff reported this past week. Total since 6/1/2016 remains at 20,246. Have to believe there will be significant layoffs unless Q2 shows exceptional growth in cloud revenues, which nobody expects. That plus TK’s departure could result in... — read more 

I see that analysts are predicting stagnating results for Oracle’s earning or even a slight decline in YOY results. Think that that will be just a picture painted in numbers about the condition that the company is these days. We all know that the... — read more 

After the departure of TK and now two VPs getting the boot, rumors of a major reorganization is underway. One of the VP's let go (NK) had over 16 years of service he was Vice President of Software Development, Cloud Services at Oracle. TK was... — read more 

SRs will no longer go to the regular customer facing service engineers like before and instead will go straight to Ops. Those poor saps will now face the wrath of the customers where before, they were not customer facing. CSAT scores will take a... — read more 

https://investor.oracle.com/financial-news/financial-news-details/2018/Oracle-Sets-the-Date-for-its-Second-Quarter-Fiscal-Year-2019-Earnings-Announcement/default.aspx

People have been posting about insanity in Santa Clara. What's going on there? —> best post: Santa Clara campus location has long been a time-honored tradition as former lunatics asylum Comment by By @WuBmo1A-1wbo Post ID: @WuBmo1A-2jpg @WuBmo1A-efz... — read more 

Oracle earnings: Chronic cloud concerns create crisis of confidence https://www.marketwatch.com/story/oracle-earnings-chronic-cloud-concerns-create-crisis-of-confidence-2018-12-14?siteid=yhoof2&yptr=yahoo

We are not the chosen few. Many of us wish we could have been reassigned too. Life with RB and CB is tough. Just look at our own OMC attrition rates. There are no perks here and or opportunities. We know we are next to go or be reassigned.

Tried to log into Fusion Applications. They are down AGAIN this weekend. What decade is this? Why would anyone use our apps when we can't even keep them running? We never had trouble running EBS 24/7. No wonder app revenue growth stopped soon after... — read more 

All right folks, in the spirit of the Holidays let’s see who has the best oracle cloud fraud jingle

Curious to know if the displaced SaaS CSMs who were transferred to OD and NetSuite are still going to get their bonuses for Q2?

We are hearing info that some teams in IDC are getting bonuses. Maybe not all but some people in some teams arw getting. Are these rumors or anyone has some concrete info on this.

how does Q2 look like seeing, that TK left, reorg on, Mark taking care of OCI, any new cloud strategy, to be cloud decisive and vision 2020 with only DB or cloud will remain ghost figure. your thoughts are welcome...

Well, well, well, what do you know! The two biggest losers on the tech industry, both of whom were turned down cold by the DOD b/c neither had caught up to the 20th, never mind the 21st, Century are now both suing the DOD over the cloud deal that AWS... — read more 

The Redmond, Wash.-based software giant scored highly in a range of categories, notably: Minimizing environmental impact (#1) Paying workers fairly (#2) Treating customers well (#5) Committing to ethical and diverse leadership (#5)

https://www.theregister.co.uk/AMP/2018/12/10/national_oracle_solution_write_down/

“promote sub par people to global important expert role and make it hell for people that has to find their ways around restrictions. Clueless brainless and narcissistic VPs and Directors who doesn't reward hardwork and result but rewards narcissism... — read more 

https://www.cnbc.com/2018/11/16/kurian-has-to-overcome-a-bitter-feud-between-google-and-oracle.html

See https://www.businessinsider.com/amazon-web-services-andy-jassy-roasts-oracle-larry-ellison-2018-11 His target: Oracle Executive Chairman Larry Ellison, whose face was pictured on a giant screen, peering haplessly over the edge of pie chart's tiny... — read more 

No major layoffs this past week week, total since 6/1/2016 remains at 20,246. Keep looking all, things at oracle are not getting better.

Interview with Dr. Ron Hira on the H1-B Visa Program https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sUf6b8aljpM

I know a lot of money is in play here, but this will get us nowhere. In fact these moves, for me, border with childish behavior. We all know that Oracle isn’t exactly on top of the cloud market, why the hell would they think that they would be the... — read more 

it's a classic but seems forgotten or ignored in O. many good people are driven out by their management.

Looks like some more changes hitting India Number of CPR sales reps would be reduced, followed by Solution Engineer/SC. And this is CPR side of LOB meaning DB and Middleware products are not even selling. Shoot looks like party for India has ended... — read more 

Yep rumor has it that no layoffs are scheduled this quarter. You are free to go buy large expensive gifts on credit for your family. Rest easy. The fedex notice is probably a Christmas bonus from MH himself. Ho ho ho! Yes there will be no bonus or... — read more 

Hey All, I was offered a job on the National Prime team as an external hire, can anyone here give an honest assessment of if that is a good team to join?

Down 2% today. Hit the $45 range at one point. Before you say it's just the general trend: HP and HPE up 3 and 6% AMZN up couple points MSFT up .6% Intel up IBM up

What is the future of Oracle? Will someone buy Oracle?

If you have been in oracle for too long, you are likely unemployable in any of the top cloud companies. I have seen so many existing oracle employees unable to land a job in companies like salesforce, aws and Microsoft despite being referred by their... — read more 

Just heard various rumors from multiple people saying that IDC will not see any hikes this year. Some are sti hopeful of a miracle end but thats very less number. Most seems to have accepted the fact that no hikes are coming. Any rumors or facts if... — read more 

Corrupt managers demand loyalty from developers instead of actual work. Loyalty includes sabotaging other developers and managers for them. Total chaos. Loyalty is rewarded with bonuses. People actually doing real work are resented and attacked. How... — read more 

For once I agree with MH. I can sign his words about the endless opportunities on the cloud market an SaaS as my own. The only problem here is that Oracle’s leaders seem to know everything that needs to be done in order to become market leaders in... — read more