You have to feel sorry for LE, telling tales and marginalizing competitors used to be easy, but no more. Not only did AWS push back on his nonsense, nor Splunk is giving him a lesson on how not to lose boat races - with better, ie, non oracle BI... — read more 

Past week resignations at Seattle has gone up! Most leaving to Azure or Google.

There is a continued pattern of Sales "including" other apps as part of their purchase. They include a cost associated with these add-ons. After the contract is signed, we learn they never intended to use the add-ons. In our case, these add-ons are... — read more 

Oracle management cannot keep talent on board, after the Sun B.S. many Bare Metal Engineers have friends and family that were impacted. Since Oracle does not care about loyal employees, most are bailing. Oracle has pounded to many nails in to many... — read more 

ES to announce more layoffs next week, please make sure to record. Good luck to all.

https://blogs.oracle.com/bmc/fishworks:-now-it-can-be-told There are many people sad that this era has ended. I count myself as one.

Fiscal 2017 Oracle Restructuring Plan During fiscal 2017, our management approved, committed to and initiated plans to restructure and further improve efficiencies in our operations due to our recent acquisitions and certain other operational... — read more 

If you're in need of more cognitive dissonance: https://techcrunch.com/2017/10/04/cloud-computing-has-demanded-a-kinder-gentler-oracle/

The people at the top don't have any idea what anyone does in Oracle. Experience and knowledge is not valued because they have no experience and knowledge themselves. They got to the top by s---ing up to other management and manipulating the people... — read more 

Belgium and Luxembourg TSC have been send home as well on garden leave, just curious what the clients think about the most experienced engineers leaving?

Hi, Australian employees are being called in to the office for a meeting about Oracle's change of direction with HR joining...

Anyone hear it? Was he on stage with MH?

I got confirmation that cloud architects are being layed off in EMEA. Any news from OOW about that ?

the acquisitions continue .... more fake cloud revenue, and fake customers . https://www.geekwire.com/2017/oracle-cloud-acquisitions-bear-fruit-new-serverless-platform-container-management-services/

Rumor has it that MH held a 'mean tweets' session at OOW, criticizing people who had disagree with him in the past. Sounds truly bizarre. Can somebody who was there comment please

From: https://www.wsj.com/articles/oracle-chairman-larry-ellison-takes-aim-at-amazon-1506916787 Last year LJE said Amazon's dominance in IAAS was over, well the numbers are in. Amazon went from 39.8% to 44.2% Microsoft went from 5.8% to 7.1% Oracle... — read more 

Recently an Oracle SVP, Initials SM vanished from Oracle Cloud Managed Services. Much like another level M8 departure, the disappearing act signals more layoffs. The "no human's needed" philosophy is pervasive. Its not just marketing hype. The... — read more 

4 people attended including two sales reps showed up for a Solaris session.

Whether this "Autonomous" product is really anything new or not, LE and company will be able to say that they no longer need as many salespeople, sales consultants, or R&D engineers. The product sells itself! It's self-driving! Look for more layoffs... — read more 

First layoff experience workers and then denounce immigration policy as that threatens cheap labor 😄. Foreign students come to study on their own money. We should not be obligated to keep them here. But giving them opportunities to gain experience is... — read more 

There is no single "Oracle killer." Mongo DB works fine for some apps, but Mongo is not going to be a successful public company. There is too much competition and too few customers are willing to pay a lot of money for a product that is open source... — read more 

High level management is abandoning ship. They are leaving based on executive direction known as "clean sweep." The pivot to the cloud has stalled, consumption of cloud credits is not happening. Expect big changes in management over the next few... — read more 

Just got out of moscone, LE spoke only about database and compared database on AWS. Intel took the stage before. No mention of M8 or sparc by LE.

Anyone understand why the 150 lost in WWOPS didn't get WARN applied to them? The SPARC and Solaris people were RIFd on 9/1 are still in Aria. The WWOPS people got hit on 9/28 and are gone from the system. Large numbers of both RIFs were in SCA.

Some interesting quotes from this article. I discovered that “super bosses” like ... tech innovator Larry Ellison ... built legacies by establishing an ongoing flow of talent with an emphasis on employee development. Stunningly, these bosses all... — read more 

The report about layoffs in WWOPS turned out to be true, looks like 120 people lost their jobs. With some other laid off as well, I call it 150 this week. That brings the total for this FY to 7,150, and since 6/1/2016 to 17,150. Not over yet by any... — read more 

And when will they get hit?

I'm going to file a class action lawsuit against Oracle for age discrimination. The list sent out on 9.1.2017 to be posted public.

Other tech companies, SDFC, MSFT, AWS, Google, have great spokes persons in the CEO, and then there is oracle, with H..d the T..d, being the public face of the company. What a total joke! I mean these other people are intelligent and interesting ad... — read more 

Hear hardware was being sold to Lenovo as part of Oracle's transition to the cloud... and Lenovo needing some servers. #OOW17

Three former femal oracle employees have filed a lawsuit against oracle over pay discrimination. See techcrunch for details and copy of law suit. Best of luck to the theee of you, may you collect millions!

Check this out: http://www.businessinsider.com/oracle-board-reject-shareholder-gender-pay-gap-audit-2017-9 So much for openness and transparency.

http://www.bbc.com/capital/story/20170929-what-most-bosses-get-wrong-about-millennials

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-09-29/oracle-s-ellison-adds-2-9-billion-to-fortune-on-pledged-shares

Just want to share with everyone here. A disclaimer first: My company is going through cuts, we have a lively board here - I do not work for Oracle. Anyhow, I've been harrased by an Oracle "Database and Cloud Business Consultant" who wants to chat... — read more 

It’s a powerful value proposition. In fact, MongoDB could be a threat to some of the legacy players like Oracle Corporation (NYSE:ORCL). For the most part, it looks like the database market is facing the most significant changes in decades. As a... — read more 

from: https://seekingalpha.com/article/4107969-oracle-reluctant-bull-lifts-horns I confess it - Oracle (ORCL) is a company whose shares I dislike recommending. I simply do not like the culture or the personalities of the leadership. And it is... — read more 

http://www.businessinsider.com/oracle-board-reject-shareholder-gender-pay-gap-audit-2017-9

It seems that every this or that group at #Oracle gets axed – at this point, all of this has started to affect my health, my #anxiety levels are through the roof. Seriously, I try to avoid thinking about layoffs, try to avoid discussing it with... — read more 

If you look back a couple of decades, you'll see that the electronics manufacturing industry went through a similar shift. Having in-house manufacturing capability was expensive and wasn't central to the business. Contract manufacturers, due to their... — read more