Poor KAD is shown the door. One more KAD is also likely to be laidoff in Jan18.

Any customers here who’ve had their legal dept look into whether oracle doubling the price of running oracle DB on AWS violated stars or federal predatory pricing laws? Would appreciate you sharing. Thanks!

LE is that Internet thing for real? Business gonna use it, you think? Something oracle should be involved with and have products for? Any thoughts LE?

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/estimating-intrinsic-value-oracle-corporation-133510993.html

Gotta be some layoffs in Jan/Feb since no big grouping of layoffs yet this quarter. They have to meet their restructuring numbers and stick their plan. Yup, I'm pretty sure we'll have a bigger round in the following two months just to keep with the... — read more 

No major layoffs reported this past week. Total for FY18 remains at 7,275; since 6/1/2016 at 17,275. Next six months will be interesting. Still hundreds of millions left in the restricting reserve and expectations of major layoffs to come. However... — read more 

https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/public-safety/va-man-behind-20-million-visa-fraud-faces-deportation-after-prison-sentence/2017/12/22/61007138-e729-11e7-833f-155031558ff4_story.html?utm_term=.ece54596e5fe

Oracle have now a new internal campaign on integrity as a foundation of trust and principle of good business. What a failed attempt to cover up the corruption and poor integrity that are currently rooted in the company and of course the compliance &... — read more 

Hope it all works out for y’all in 2018. Stay safe this holiday period.

Oracle is going to hugely benefit from the new tax law and continue to lay people off. Well, when the layoffs pick up on calendar 2018, let’s make sure we cause a big stink about it. The purported purpose of this give away to large corporations is... — read more 

I predict the new autonomous database will run fine on small data sets, but when you get in the terabyte range it will be terrible. The reason that it will perform poorly is that it will take forever (and it does) to run statistics. They will have to... — read more 

Total Cloud market: IaaS, PaaS, SaaS (Source: Jefferies) Cloud vendor Annualized revenue % of market Year-over-year growth Amazon Web Services $18.34 billion 26% 42% Microsoft Azure $21.21 billion 31% 64% IBM Cloud $6.03 billion 9% 23% Google Cloud... — read more 

Time for a good morale booster.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/bobevans1/2017/12/18/the-top-10-reasons-why-oracle-and-its-cloud-business-are-in-great-shape/#4b6cfef4664d

Would like to hire the ex-Sun Solaris Kernel/Platform developers. It's been challenging to track down where they are. If anyone knows someone from that team, let us know.

How many people will lose their jobs in Cloud due to the Aconex acquisition, of which I'm still failing to understand the purpose? Oracle is always consolidation trigger happy, so I'm pretty sure that loses on both sides will be rather high. Next... — read more 

It is almost certain Oracle is shutting down certain on-premise software products and moving long term support to India and China. So all people related to those products will be gone in 2018. It will be blood letting the entire year as oracle goes... — read more 

MH in a stroke of genius has decided to take Oracle from a 40 billion plus software company and turn it into a 10 billion plus cloud company. Software takes zero dollars to mass produce when written. Its does take money to maintain software, upgrade... — read more 

LE has done it this time writing checks the bank cannot cash. Insolvency and Chapter 11 is around the corner. The smart ones will abandon ship now

Failing oracle, unable to keep up with competition in the cloud had to make yet another expensive acquisition, this time of Aconex. All of which raises a simple question: why does oracle have a huge and hugely expensive Development group and how... — read more 

Did you folks notice the new oracle strategy? Yeah, they’re posting here, pretending to be employees/ former employees and suggesting how the rest of us should behave. Be nice to oracle, don’t criticize - it’s a small world and the arm of oracle is... — read more 

All people you that complain about Oracle. Shame on you. You need to support the company as it grows in the cloud space. Do the needful.

No layoff reported this past week. Total for FY18 stays at 7,275; and since 6/1/2016 at 17,275. Hopefully that’s it for this calendar year. Next calendar year looks like it has potential for continued layoffs give the remaining restructuring reserve... — read more 

I had a great run at Oracle but have now left the company. While I am disappointed to have left I won't bad mouth the company as this is such a small industry and word gets around.

Companies can also run Oracle database on AWS, but earlier this year, Oracle changed its licensing in such a way that it essentially doubled the cost of running and Oracle database on AWS cloud. The idea was clear: Oracle wants to make it cheaper for... — read more 

https://amp.businessinsider.com/oracles-autonomous-database-coming-in-january-aims-to-crush-amazon-2017-12

This is what needs to happen to Oracle, particularly TK's organization. https://www.reuters.com/article/us-uber-s-xual-harassment/uber-fires-20-employees-after-harassment-probe-idUSKBN18X2GZ

Oracle is a dream company for me but I don't know how to get hired. How did you get hired by Oracle?

"..Oracle did try to sugarcoat things (no doubt, the company is pretty good at this!). ..But unfortunately, such metrics are really just noise. .." https://finance.yahoo.com/news/oracle-corporation-future-getting-cloudy-155429927.html

Ok, it should now be blatanty clear to anybody with a brain that oracle is a sinking ship aimlessly adrift and being battered by rocks, in the process of breaking up and sinking, while the captain and his senior mates are adrift in a drunken haze... — read more 

"..we are clearly market leader..blah..blah..blah.."... is he..high smoking something?

https://forums.theregister.co.uk/forum/1/2017/12/06/the_ultimate_vendor_lockin_high_school_opens_on_oracle_campus/ I would seriously wonder about anyone who would let their kids go to school there willingly. Of course.. If you live in the area and... — read more 

https://forums.theregister.co.uk/forum/1/2017/12/08/oracles_safra_catz_joins_disney_board/ sc is moving to the mouses. Mean time oracle stock is going down under 47$. Enjoy larry e. ...

Oracle sank like a rock in after hours trading to below $48 on poor forecast and cloud performance. Hold on to your hats, it’s a long way down.

https://event.on24.com/wcc/r/1472327/699934D584D11DE71EA8AEFC4C8DE8AF http://investor.oracle.com/events-and-presentations/default.aspx

http://www.forbes.com/sites/bobevans1/2017/12/12/oracles-larry-ellison-challenges-amazon-salesforce-and-workday-on-the-future-of-the-cloud/ Oracle's Ellison Challenges Amazon, Salesforce And Workday On The Future Of The Cloud

I just want to get your feedback about Microsoft. Does Microsoft hire Oracle people?? I'm a former Oracle sales consultant. I have tried for a couple of years to get an interview with Microsoft. I'm very qualified for these positions. Unfortunately... — read more 

Just got word that the ECA's under Hamidont will be consolidated this quarter. Taking out the redundant management (LE, RL, AL) and cutting out bottom 10% of performers (or upper 10% of age depending on what your methodology is). This is supposed to... — read more 

This was posted in another thread: There WILL be layoffs on Monday. The 10 minute calls are already set up. from @QDMPlO8-zwd Did anything happen? Were there layoffs on Monday?