Looks like RG is taking one out of his mentor MH's playbook. Apparently he is having the same inappropriate relationship like the one that got NH thrown out of HP. There is only so long that HR/PR departments can keep something like this one quiet.

Alot of folks look at a prospective employer on glassdoor.com. We should help people "wake up and smell the coffee"!

Anyone else getting shorted on their commission check?

--companies announced wage hikes, bonuses, benefits in afterglow of Trump tax reform https://www.yahoo.com/finance/news/81-companies-announce-wage-hikes-bonuses-afterglow-trump-tax-reform-171148283.html ................... Anfinson Farm Store: $1k... — read more 

Anyone whether tis business unit is still around? heard the whole team had been layoff last sept. 2017. Is Oracle still supporting "DIVA"?

So looks like I’ve landed a gig with a cloud competitor to one of oracle’s offerings. Do I give notice with standard two weeks or is it safe to assume that when I give notice it will be my last day. My manager is a good person and I don’t want to... — read more 

Management succession at oracle is a complete and total joke. Three old stooges running the company with nobody to take over, then again as they are running the company into the ground, there soon won’t be anything for anybody to take over. Plus... — read more 

Anyone have any insight on field solutions engineers (formerly solutions consultants) in NAA? We went thru a transformation to make everyone demo monkeys with a centralized team responsible for even simple configuration for customer demos. Doesn’t... — read more 

That was a really good post. Who took it down? Censorship is as American as apple pie at Oracle it seems. Many posts keep disappearing. What's going on? We need to move this entire conversation to somewhere other than this shill-managed site. This is... — read more 

No major layoffs this past week. Total for FY18 YTD remains at 7,275; since 6/1/2016 at 17,275. Major changes coming. Keep looking for jobs outside of oracle and move on. Good luck all!

Put that in your pipe and smoke it you naysayers...

Old S@@t....and yes OLD NEWS https://finance.yahoo.com/news/oracle-corporation-stock-old-dog-182836843.html

CEO of Oracle Corp (ORCL) Safra Catz sold 5,000,000 shares of ORCL on 01/17/2018 at an average price of $50.05 a share. The total sale was $250.3 million. .. (Safra owns 7,000,000 share--)... — read more 

Anyone know what happened?

"Cost reduction mandate". Started this morning.

Please show me that I want to do business with Oracle not because I need to do business with Oracle. There are many choices, I buy stuffs because I want to not because I need to. I have yet met a customer that likes doing business with Oracle. Yes, I... — read more 

It is true, just because you laid off doesn't mean solaris development has stopped. The proofs: https://blogs.oracle.com/solaris/continuous-delivery%2c-really

Here's the link....https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/larry-ellison-obsessed-winningand-doesnt-think-anyone-bob-evans/

28 Feb. is the last day of all the experienced engineers in EU. Only Romania survives. good luck to all. Does anybody know if this is true? Any more info on it? I've been trying to find where it came from, but I'm failing to find anything but this... — read more 

No major layoffs this past week. Total stay at 7,275 for FY18 YTD and 17,275 since 6/1/2016. Many disconcerting discussions about more layoffs to come. Keep your eyes open.

Had this happen to a customer using one of the oracle cloud services. https://www.theregister.co.uk/2018/01/09/oracle_weblogic_hole_primed_to_pump_monero/ Basically cronjobs were replaced with a crypto miner job and resources were maxed out. The so... — read more 

Security thru obscurity

They could have spent the money retraining all of the folks they fired. A real shame. Oracle CEO welcomes the Design Tech High School community to their new campus at #Oracle HQ. “When there were roadblocks, the collective spirit of every person... — read more 

I am a CPR in North America. A GVP in the know in HD's org gave me the heads up that the ECA's management will be consolidating this quarter and moving to pooled model (mimicking the hubs). This means the ranks of AL, LW, RL, EU will be less. They... — read more 

so how is that.. some groups have been receiving annual inflation raise (2-3%) across the board and some act like they are a different company?..just spoke with a collegue who was lucky enough to find an internal position (totally different group--... — read more 

Who does oracle use for W2? I forgot. Former employee.

I had a call with my old group vice president, after the customer call I dialed his number for a followup conversation. He is a GVP for the ECA team (Enterprise cloud Architects). He and I have a close relationship, and I brought up the rumors that... — read more 

No major layoffs this past week reported. Total for FY18 stands at 7,275 and since 6/1/2016 at 17,275. Major concerns about more layoff remain: still hundreds of millions left in the FY18 restricting reserve, and Austin, TX facility opening in fill... — read more 

It seems like all the major cloud players are almost completely done taking the steps needed (patching) to protect their customers. Every one I looked at has already released a statement about their efforts. We have yet to even acknowledge we have a... — read more 

Only two major CPU architectures have not received some sort of official response from their vendors regarding Meltdown & Spectre: SPARC and Itanium. Notice any pattern here? Look at how seriously a REAL systems company takes this:... — read more 

..Would the current batch of Systems/Solaris folks be still around ? The customers still have our products. I wonder if Oracle plans to keep around the remaining folks for longer time.

http://www.firstpost.com/world/h1b-extensions-on-the-chopping-block-4282721.html Over the last 10 years - from 2007 to 2017, Indians have taken the lion’s share of H1B visa approvals every single year followed by China in second place and Canada... — read more 

The previous post said "Oracle is divesting itself of all hardware related development, and production will be scaled back to match only existing customer demand." But then it goes on to say Oracle is simply scaling back to meet customer demand. That... — read more 

High level rumors are circulating, Group Vice President (GVP) level rumors. These are not confirmed, but I am posting what I have heard here. Next major round of layoffs are slated for March 1st 2018. Most of this will be hardware related. Oracle is... — read more 

ORCL/ still $47..not a dime up...@$#!$

Here's an example of Oracle's treatment of hard workers, done with a phone conference with a pre-recorded message. Ed the man at his best, hell has a special place for such jerk offs in life. I will post this recording for many years, so future and... — read more 

https://www.marketwatch.com/story/oracle-falls-after-report-that-amazon-salesforce-are-developing-own-databases-2018-01-02?siteid=yhoof2&yptr=yahoo Oracle Corp. ORCL, -1.82% shares declined Tuesday after a report that Amazon.com Inc. AMZN, +1.53% and... — read more 

Am I the only one who actually feels good about the incoming year for Oracle? There weren't as many layoffs as we have feared in the last quarter, and I'm hoping that trend will continue. Analysts are bullish on our stock, which is a good way to ring... — read more 

Look like last week as peaceful on the layoff front. Total for FY remains at 7,275 and at 17,275 since 6/1/2016. Happy New Year all, BUT no not assume that all is well at oracle, chances of more significant layoffs on the new year remain high.