Looks like about 20 or so people in OCC lost their jobs this past week. That brings the total since 6/1/2016 to 20,091. No major layoffs lately but no good news either, oracle is not going anywhere good, keep looking for new jobs before the economy... — read more 

Onpremises apps are back. Formal org in place to sell it ERP, PS, Siebel. Not sure if it is good or bad.

Bad environment right now. Everyone is depressed.

Why is Oracle creating BS jobs after BS jobs. The Larry hires 2 CEOs to do his work? His 2 CEOs hire a bunch of VPs to their work. The VPs hire a bunch of directors to do their work. The directors hire a bunch of managers to do their work. The... — read more 

Its never too late to go back to highschool and be prom king again

Is there any severance pay or paid COBRA if someone is placed on a performance improvement plan and doesn't make the criteria at the end? What does it look like compared to a standard US severance package. Is it just me, or has the heat been turned... — read more 

https://variety.com/2018/film/news/annapurna-larry-ellison-megan-ellison-vice-1202975648/ ===================================== ==== Oracle founder Larry Ellison is engineering a major reorganization of his daughter Megan Ellison’s struggling... — read more 

What's happening with the stock? oct 1st was 51.80$ now is 47.40$ , a whopping -10% in 10 days!!!!! Is it possible they already finished the buyback funds? Really? Less than 2 months.... There must have been a flooding of sell covered by buybacks... — read more 

Why attend Oracle Open World this year??? It's funny. I keep getting LinkedIn messages/postings from former Oracle colleagues about Oracle Open World. You know. Oracle must be in serious trouble when nobody wants to go OOW. It must be an all points... — read more 

Are they going to prop it back up? Or have they given up on that?

Redwood Shores offices are similar to that of HighSchool.

I was one of those folks whose team was re-org'ed/merged with a couple of different teams. Needless to say, the first ones to go are the those that actually did real work and those that had the years in experience. For some reason, I managed not to... — read more 

Come join the high school team ;)

A number of OCC teams outside the US are being informed that OCI-C/OCC is reducing staff in remote locations and therefore the remote team is being let go.

Looks like maybe 50 people or so weee laid off in various GBU support units this past week. That brings the total since 6/1/2016 to 20,071. Keep looking nothing good coming your way at oracle.

Czuprynski’s three-word summary of the new cloud software: “No more knobs.” Czuprynski’s longer assessment is that Oracle Autonomous Data Warehouse delivers on its broad promise of automating much of the manual work that has long gone into creating... — read more 

I have started recording all conversations I have without telling anyone. I am older with health problems. Get a digital recorder with a good microphone, something that works to 40 feet and you can put it in your pocket and still capture the... — read more 

Due to the re-organization, my team is to be merged under Oracle cloud infra and we have to eventually follow their own implementations if the OC.I head says so. So worst case, how does merging similar teams work? Target the higher management or... — read more 

Another legal maneuver by Oracle just a week before bids for the Pentagon’s $10 billion JEDI cloud contract are due. https://www.nextgov.com/cio-briefing/2018/10/oracle-continues-protest-push-against-jedi/151799/ For a third time, software giant... — read more 

Run away far as possible from this place.

With the last quarter's results out, we thought we would update this chart to see if Oracle's cloud services had slowed further, or made a turnaround. The problem is, we can't. Oracle has decided to fold its cloud services revenue in with its legacy... — read more 

That Monkey RG.. informed that one of the main results from the recent employee survey is-- that emplyees trust their immediate managers ..!#@! lies and bigger lies..continue...

Confirmed. Various GBU units affected on the support side, so I'm sure it's not just the Springs that got hit today. The ones I've personally seen leave are the highly experienced, middle age, white men if that is an indicator of what is to come or... — read more 

big changes

from what i see, managers who lose the most important asset of the company aka top employees get promotions. am I nuts or others noticed it too? if it's really happening it's about age, fresh blood, lower the costs or simply ignorance of the top... — read more 

https://www.yahoo.com/finance/m/ac8232aa-0ccc-3bd7-a743-46c01aaba10e/how-oracle%26apos%3Bs-median.html =============================== Oracle Corp.'s two CEOs each received pay packages of more than $108 million — or 1,205 times what the typical... — read more 

Confirmed with multiple ex-Oracle people at Infor that HD will be joining Infor to revamp and head up it's consulting organization and partner enablement. He has proposed an OEA-type program that CF has bought off on. Expect to see something before... — read more 

So this post is long overdue, but the final nail has been driven into the Oracle coffin. Oracle is nothing more than a collection of legacy technology acquisitions, the latest acquisitions aren't really integrated or extended, because there is... — read more 

http://www.businessinsider.fr/us/oracle-management-wall-street-analysts-2018-9 Oracle grew only 1% last quarter, and Wall Street is starting to question whether management is up to the job Driving management churn, TK?

The Street validates the ORCL strategy based on current price. Next stop is $60/share!

looks like some 60 people got laid off from the Comms GBU, bringing the total since 6/1/2016 to 20,021. Expect more layoffs now that LE, MH, SC are not getting any stock awards due to failure to hit cloud targets and will be looking to generate more... — read more 

“We support the notion of increasing Oracle support for other clouds,” Brad Reback, an analyst at Stifel Nicolaus & Co., wrote in a note on Wednesday. “Given the lack of meaningful capex investments and limited traction to-date, we are not convinced... — read more 

Oracle rushed to the cloud chasing Amazon rather than making a measured move and continuing to focus on what we were great at. There are plenty of large financial, government, education, and Fortune 500 companies that need and want on-prem, and are... — read more 

How long until all the cloud devs, pms,and managers from amzn and msft get laid off? Oracle sure s---ed up a lot of people, and paid a lot for them- not clear what the heck they even need them for

https://www.yahoo.com/finance/m/b04dddf8-a90b-371f-a34f-2f6cd427e075/oracle-product-chief-thomas.html

Oracle operates like an intelligent criminal does. A criminal like that could choose to use their mind to do real work and could succeed in that way. But, the criminal looks instead, for ways to cheat the system, to screw people over for fun, to do... — read more 

Finally fessed up!!! =============== https://www.marketwatch.com/story/top-oracle-cloud-exec-thomas-kurian-leaving-company-2018-09-28?siteid=yhoof2&yptr=yahoo ==================

Ask anyone at Oracle what happened to their recently announced global data centre strategy and you are met with a lengthy silence. Something has happened and the plans seems to have stopped dead in their tracks with little clarity or direction. With... — read more 

Any of JF's old team still there?