What do you expect ? Every major IT firm has gone through the transition from being a software product company to being a software service company. It's not a zero sum change. IBM went through it, Microsoft went through it - and now you're seeing the... — read more 

Also, this long list of wonderful companies we acquired over time... Do not listen to all folks who complain and whine - we are doing fine, we are buying companies left and right and we generate an immense amount of cash flow that helps us finance... — read more 

Safra Catz the CO CEO of Oracle, just dumped 90% of her stock in Oracle in the past two months. On 03/21/2017 she sold 3,000,000 shares of her 3,461,860 total shares owned. That dropped her to 461,860 and then she sold another 103,520 shares on... — read more 

Oracle is a joke. Customers are being bombarded by a dozen different reps pushing solutions, which, in most cases, aren't adding value to their organization. Competition is winning with better, less expensive offerings. We're expected to sell... — read more 

The reorg as described would result in massive declines in revenue and would not solve any problems related to selling cloud. Selling at Oracle is extremely difficult due to complex licensing policies and bureaucratic rules. New sales reps are... — read more 

How can the ECA's and other pre-sales engineers be expected to succeed when Oracle won't even make the investment in giving them their own cloud accounts? That's just pathetic and goes to show you how cheap Oracle is. Now they are looking for a... — read more 

So I will call then number of people laid if this past week at 500, bringing the CYTD to 3,700. The areas impacted include: CW org - 350 JD org EMEA - 140 OMCS - several dozens, say 50 UK - 20 Keep reporting layoffs and get ready for some really big... — read more 

The execs are waiting for the deals to close in Q4, and then the biggest reorg in ten years will happen this June. This post is based on rumors gained from people speaking to the executives inside and outside oracle. This perspective has been... — read more 

Looks like lots of layoffs reported this week, let's review and verify CE org - 350 TK org - 220 JD EMEA org - 140 MCOS - several dozens other ? Is this correct? Is any of this double counting? Anything missing

Much easier than most people think. All you need to do is persuade gullible LE that your stupidity is actually brilliance. Just loook at MH and how he's singlehandedly destroying the sales organization and how TK has waisted billions producing... — read more 

Oracle Support will exacute a reduction in force next Wednesday. More Support layoffs coming at all levels.

Interesting read. https://www.arnnet.com.au/article/618305/netsuite-oracle-unveil-combined-plans-global-cloud-domination/ "We are now a global business unit inside of Oracle," he explained. "That means all sales, all services, all support and all the... — read more 

https://www.yahoo.com/amphtml/finance/news/oracle-plans-internal-startup-outpace-194209523.html Watch out! Oracle is coming back. Oracle Corp. is forming a unit it's calling a startup within its U.S. operations to work on new technologies that may... — read more 

Folks in the HSGBU, keep an eye out for IBM Watson life science job postings on the web, new sales/ acct mgmt positions opening up

When Keith Block was in charge of sales, it might have been 65-70% of the people made plan. Now the plan is super complicated, and maybe 25% of people or less make plan. Why would a good sales rep want to work for Oracle when the management team is... — read more 

Well, it was obvious that LE was making a huge bet, just not clear what the bet was. No longer, the bet is that the future of oracle is NetSuite, everything else - Fusion cloud apps, on-prem apps, hardware - is toast. If everybody in those groups is... — read more 

Heard from management that the leadership team has more or less thrown in the towel when it comes to FA and have accepted that the future of the apps business at Oracle will be in acquired assets like NetSuite. Feature wise, FA will not progress much... — read more 

Anybody know any rumors about what is happening to the CAD team at Oracle? Will they get acquired? I would think the CAD team would be the most sellable part of the SPARC processor group. Maybe Ansys or something could buy them to compet better with... — read more 

Whole Foods, Sears, Mattel, DXC, AT&T, Verizon... Exactly how many companies have to be in mass shutdown mode before people figure out there's a problem? And it isn't isolated to their specific company or circumstances. Time to wake up people, the... — read more 

I heard atleat 3 people laid off today and one from non omcs in HQ

The total has moved up to 3,200 with layoffs in India and Emea this week. No US layoffs reported. Get ready for a big whack on June 1!

Hey oppressed masses at oracle, did you notice how the three stooges are raking it in and you're getting scxed? Time to leave for a better places and enjoy seeing the oracle share price/ LE's fortune calapse. He's not willing to share so screw him!

What can you share about layoffs this week? Any more layoffs in Poland? How many and which function in India? Where else were there layoffs this week?

Did you all see Boeing's announcement that there were laying off hundreds of engineers, and then did you see Oracle's? Oh, sorry, oracle doesn't make announcement, the three stooges think that nobody will notice - wrong! Same for when they replace US... — read more 

So looks like oracle laid off 50 engineers in CGBU in Burlington, MA and immediately started back filling them with Indian engineers from India, brought here to be trained and sent back. In what other areas is oral legal doing a similar thing? Share... — read more 

Layoffs this week: CGBU - 50, HSGBU - 7, Poland Solaris support - 20, plus singles =~100. Keep reporting

So looks like we had layoffs on Poland and the HSGBU this week - any other layoffs to report ?

Are massive sales consultant layoffs planned for June?

Romania became a really expensive country to hire and Oracle is desperate to relocate to another country for lower salaries. HR in EMEA is now hiring in Bulgaria. They are using local job agencies and completely outside of official channels (you... — read more 

Very interesting developments: http://fortune.com/2017/04/12/trump-oracle-safra-catz-2/

Another round of layoffs started today. Support engineers in Solaris/Network and Disk domains in Poland were laid off along with hub agents. More layoffs to follow next week. Spain is next, followed by other sites in Europe.

Well it's a first this year, but the layoff total for the calendar year to date stay the same at 3,050. Yes there was a 5 person layoff in the HSGBU this week, which is sad, but it doesn't move the needle. Unfortunately, this is merely a temporary... — read more 

Where is the March/April layofff? Anyone has any update?

What layoffs are you aware of this week? Number of people, unit, location? Share what you know!

I heard a rumor that folks at the top want to eliminate remote work, they want people working at HQ. Anyone else heard this?

If it is in fact correct that Director level and higher employees were put on flex vacation and has their carries vacation taken away, then their vacation accruals which had already been expenses would have bee reversed and would have - artificially... — read more 

When the new policy was announced – YES, I knew their real motivation was to get the liability off the books…. YES, I knew they just made layoffs cheaper with this move …. YES, I knew this was NOT some altruistic thing done for our benefit… But it’s... — read more 

I received an 8-month severance at a former employer. When my new company checked my employment history, I was reported by my old company as "employed" during those 8 months. Anyone know if Oracle records you in the same way?

If you join your next employer before the 60 day notification period ends, are you still eligible to claim severance ?