I cannot believe how many different engineering and non engineering jobs there are out in major areas. I'd say if you're wanting and able too, leave Oracle I was loyal until E Screwjob S gave the Oracle look to your right and cough as we castrate... — read more 

I sent my paper work in last week, how long before Oracle pays out the final severance pay out? Thanks any help is greatly appreciated.

Is LE getting collateral calls from his lenders now that oracle stock is tanking. Getting desperate LE? Sure looks like it!

So just got told to accept a new comp plan where the target allocation changed downward by 20%. Not that I should complain...but wth?

From the article: Therefore, if you believe that Oracle's cloud services will keep growing and its margins will keep expanding, it could be a great time to start a new position in this evolving tech giant... — read more 

This morning, few thousands showed up to cheer up Screven's launching the last SPARC chip M8 and its deadend roadmap.

Amazon Just Made a Huge Change to its Cloud Pricing Amazon is shaking up how it charges businesses that rent its cloud computing services. Starting next month, customers will be able to pay by the second instead of by the hour, Amazon Web Services... — read more 

I tried to put a positive post on Oracle for the last two weeks and it is removed...Hummmm

New SPARC T8 and M8 systems announced by Mr Screven today. SPARC is far from dead. https://www.oracle.com/servers/sparc/index.html

Hi all, As the new company is currently working on transferring H-1B for me and they need last 2 paystubs, I am posting for wondering if someone here might know how to get that when being under WARN. Any contact information regarding this matter... — read more 

There were bizarre statements in the earnings call and major red flags in the financial statements. Their announcement that executives were now going to be compensated primarily on cloud revenue is very strange, considering that SC and MH already... — read more 

The idea that the only reason we needed to lower cloud forecast is that our data centers can't keep up with demand is complete fiction. Yes, it is true that our investment in data centers has been anemic and that has hurt our top line... — read more 

No change this past week, total for FY18 remains 7,000; total since 6/1/2016 remains 17,000. With analysts call over and downward guidance expect more layoffs as per the other threads. Please report here as they happen. Good luck all!

Management is the greatest inefficiency in any organisation. Six years ago Gary Hamel wrote a hugely influential piece called First, Let’s Fire All the Managers. It outlined the huge inefficiency tax that management layers over an organisation: As an... — read more 

Just when you thought you were safe, there are more cuts being planned for ES's org for early next year. Target groups include a significant hit for the linux groups and the rest of zfssa. It's not clear whether the pillar org will get a trim.

Which means the street isn't buying into our story of growth and no-touch databases. Probably means Papa Mark and Mama Safra are going to take some of us out to the back shed and tan our hides with a good RIFfin'!

I think in the majority of cases no one could reasonably expect that their manager is going to give them any heads up. In the vast majority of cases the manager is not going to want to deal with that. They will want it short and sweet at the end and... — read more 

Join us on September 18, 2017 as Oracle’s Chief Corporate Architect, Edward Screven and other executives unveil the latest in enterprise platforms, powered by Oracle SPARC. This next-generation of the Oracle SPARC platform is co-engineered to run... — read more 

Oracle's new autonomous database will no longer need humans to tune, patch or administrate the database because it now has machine learning. All you have to do it click a button and upload your data and your are done. Wow. Really? Lets look at... — read more 

The Equifax break in seems to be because they had not fixed a Struts security hole for for which a fix had been distributed a few months earlier. Our cloud is full of systems that have not has security patches applied in YEARS. There are literally... — read more 

http://www.marketwatch.com/story/oracle-outlook-raises-concerns-about-growth-2017-09-14 Oracle said its future growth, however, will come from its current businesses, or organically, as it put it, and not so much from acquisitions. Co-founder and... — read more 

Well, well, well, what do you know, finally oracle had to come clean and guide down. Why is that ? SFDC and AWS not having this problem, why is oracle? Cloud not doing that well, really, how come?

I just watched The Closing Bell on CNBC. They were pumping up Oracle stock big time. All was milk and honey. Clould htis, cloud that. It felt we were new 'Microsoft' with a huge shift to the Cloud that's transipring righ tnow. They closed the piece... — read more 

Thought this was an interesting read: http://marketrealist.com/2017/09/oracle-hiring-month-announcing-layoffs/ From the article: Oracle’s latest hiring announcement negates the viewpoint that Oracle resorted to layoffs solely as a cost-cutting... — read more 

Those of us that are left are totally unable to keep up with anything but the most critical security fixes. There are only a handful of us. Support will continue to file bug reports on behalf of customers, but we have no engineers to assign... — read more 

my customer freaked out my and asked my SE out and not to mention upgrading supercluser again. He asked to pick up the rac once they settle with Dell.

Just an FYI - NOTICE_DATE: Friday, September 01, 2017 JOB_SITE_NAME: Oracle America, Inc. COUNTY_NAME: Travis WDA_NAME: Capital Area WDA TOTAL_LAYOFF_NUMBER: 108 LayOff_Date: Tuesday, October 31, 2017 WFDD_RECEIVED_DATE: Friday, September 01, 2017... — read more 

Can I apply and receive UI benefit during WARN in CA?

7+ days into unanswered call to 3rd party COBRA provider on how to expedite enrollment. Can anyone help with any practical advice? I'm not subject to WARN so my benefits ended 9/1 . I know that COBRA for the 1st month is retroactive and fully funded... — read more 

Large Austin TV station reporting 108 layoffs for Oracle Austin office by Oct. 31. Anyone hear about this or know which departments will be affected? Link:... — read more 

http://www.edd.ca.gov/jobs_and_training/warn/WARN_Report_for_7-1-2017_to_09-10-2017.pdf

A 30 person JDE engineering layoff in Denver reported this week. Total for this fiscal year remains at 7,000; 17,000 since 6/1/2016. Next expected major layoff is rumored to be enterprise sales, smaller layoffs will continue on a weekly basis here... — read more 

In news that is shocking to exactly no one, Oracle just published its new products roadmap that pushes Solaris 11.next to next year. In all honestly, I wouldn't be surprised if it was scraped altogether after the latest layoffs. Who exactly is left... — read more 

I expect that Oracle will resume year-over-year declining revenue with next week's earnings report. In the celebration and stock price increase that followed Oracle's seemingly good Q42017 earnings, there are a few facts that perhaps Wall Street... — read more 

I was looking around for job opportunities (whether I am next on a chopping block or not, I want to be prepared,) and ran into this list. Basically, what I got from it, if you want job security, join the army or anything related to it. There is no... — read more 

OK, layoff training should be included to the new employee orientation. I can just see SC saying "...next, every new employee is advised to sign up for FedEx delivery notifications..."

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Just met with a friend that was privy to high level executive planning sessions. New targets are based on doing nothing more than driving stock price. A few years back like Q4 FY14, FY15 the biggest revenue generators were the top of the enterprise... — read more