Could be a rumor but I hear of lay-offs on the horizon, in my opinion.

Two people from my team left within a week from each other. Of course, no indications we'll be getting replacements any time soon. I'm happy for them, but guess who needs to pick up the slack? Might be following after them really soon, to be honest... — read more 

Altair and Oracle have unveiled a joint solution that offers faster high-performance computing in the cloud. The solution leverages GPU technology to offer on-demand, Computational Fluid Dynamics technology, accelerating external aerodynamics and... — read more 

Let's talk about two basic tech interview questions: vertical sharding and horizontal sharding. If you disagree, run ctrl+shift+del please. :) Would OCI helps on the vertical sharding database? While OCI is doing their job to 'catch up' AWS's... — read more 

Larry Ellison can comfort as all he wants with his stories, that being late to the market gives us the opportunity to learn from the mistakes of our competition and puts us in a better position to deliver a more quality product, but the facts speak... — read more 

I don’t want to be paranoid but I received an email from Fedex today stating that there has been a service disruption. From reading this thread I’ve noticed that can sometimes be a precursor to being laid off. Could this be the case or is it just a... — read more 

Get out now!

Please recommend a Law Firm in San Mateo County to sue for discrimination in these layoffs.

Surprised it’s not faster.

Expect more people to be laid off.

Oracle will not help you at all in finding new positions. In fact, it is their thinking that it's the employee's fault for not doing that in the first place. Way to kick someone when they're down. Your only hope(if that's what you want to call it) is... — read more 

Oracle is scaling back its Key Account program and getting set to retrench all resources in program including IIAs, EAs and key account directors. According to MH the program hasn’t delivered expected results and if eliminated could have a positive... — read more 

Can any one justify those two? As a long term shareholder, NO.

If leadership was honest.... I know, but we can dream... The layoffs are about two themes in their reptilian brains: That Experienced, In Country, Employees that generate repeated license sales, repeated services sales, etc. Can be replaced by dirt... — read more 

By now the carnage from yesterday in HW should be obvious. I know of at least a dozen folks RIF’d. Across several locations, not just CO (also SC and BUR). Anyone else got info on this? Will it continue into Thanksgiving?

Post any information about potential or actual Oracle Layoffs in 2019?

...in the Sales groups...

A former colleague confirms that about 20 in Broomfield got their walking papers today.

Purple hat Purple hat Love in you

If you walk by any Amazon facilities and hear crying sound, then that must be coming from recently moved Oracle employees there.

Oracle is being unmasked as just a pretender in cloud services https://www.marketwatch.com/story/oracle-is-being-unmasked-as-just-a-pretender-in-cloud-services-2018-10-26?siteid=yhoof2&yptr=yahoo

Reports of some oracle consulting layoffs during OOW but no reports of numbers. For the time being the layoff number since 6/1/2016 remains at 20,091. Take a look at the posting about the layoff reserve, not good news. Keep looking!

Dang, this one will shake things up in the enterprise world. Since Oracle basically distributes Red Hat's RHEL operating system verbatim (WC would tell you otherwise), let's see how this affects Redwood Shores. The deal is being positioned as a cloud... — read more 

Oracle is destined to beat Amazon at cloud database: Larry Ellison https://finance.yahoo.com/video/oracle-destined-beat-amazon-cloud-014030129.html

If you still work at Oracle and make a decent salary, are over the age of 30 or 40 you should always read the 10Q. Layoffs are not over. Its not as big as the last two years, but its close. Over 1.1 billion was spent on severance packages over two... — read more 

is created by the continuous RIF year after year, quarter after quarter. Most of the better performer wouldn't be worry about that but they did declare that the RIF was not based on your age, performance, etc... So, you can be eliminated for what... — read more 

Stop stock buyback ASAP and channel the money into R&D. We need to develop viable and useful products and Oracle stopped doing this long, long time ago. The board needs to be replaced ASAP and the entire C-level lineup needs to be reexamined. That's... — read more 

DN has a very interesting post you should read on market watch. Oracle is being called out for a number of serious concerns relating to cloud. The market is finally realizing what we all know, that Oracle is just a "cloud pretender." LJE is doing... — read more 

Saw this regarding the analyst meeting https://www.streetinsider.com/dr/news.php?id=14748583&gfv=1 with a transcript of LE riff on Tesla and Oracle futures. Apparently Oracle does not care about some businesses going away because Cloud 2.0 will get... — read more 

Oracle's cloud has robotic, Star Wars-like cyber defenses: Larry Ellison https://finance.yahoo.com/video/oracles-cloud-robotic-star-wars-110723086.html

Wow was SC uncomfortable on stage during the Q/A with MH. Either she was having a nervous breakdown or she drank 6 Red Bulls. She states the stock is the "bargain of a lifetime." LOL MH has stated dozens of times over the past few years that the... — read more 

RB came to Austin this week, and there are a few observations to take note of Does he want to be in this organization? No clear career path defined for professional growth A majority of employees seeking alternative employment Clear lack of awareness... — read more 

Definitely an interesting article on Oracle’s strategy of growing on the Cloud market. The numbers don’t lie and it’s a fact that we are well behind the competition, but it’s also true that technology is going much faster than the market demands are... — read more 

Suppose you want to get onto your manager's lay-off list, and you want to get a package soon. Anyone propose any particular strategy? Perhaps, just don't do any work, or mess things up? Or, just don't help your manager with any underhanded deeds?... — read more 

"....He makes claims that his cloud products are faster and cheaper, claims that are hard to substantiate given how hard it is to nail down any vendor’s cloud prices and speeds. He says they have no disaster recovery, when they do. None of it... — read more 

The goal of the current dev management, is not to correct problems and create good products.... the goal is simply to be the last manager standing after the carnage. It's every "man"-ager for him or herself at this point. Some of these people are... — read more