This is from HN: Sad in a way, but no surprise. I recently summarized my opinions on hackernews[1] in response to why Netflix uses Linux instead of Solaris, which might be of interest here: "I worked on Solaris for over a decade, and for a while it... — read more 

To contact President elect D. J. Trump please address your correspondence to: office - 725 Fifth Ave. . 26th floor, New York, NY 10022, residence - 721 Fifth Ave, NY, NY 10022, Tel. 212 832 2000

Starting on Jan 23 2017 - "It has been decided that it is a requirement for you come into work on all the days you are scheduled to work except weekends. If you work a weekend shift you may do that from home"

In the US, does Oracle discontinue our medical insurance the same day we get the RIF? Does anyone know how much COBRA costs per month in the US if I need to insure my whole family? And does COBRA cover medical insurance only, or vision and dental... — read more 

Say they annouce this on Jan 17. Do you have to leave right away? Anyone can share some insights? Much appreciated.

payroll located in romania have been delivering wrong payslips for months in emea, see http://cfdt-oracle.blogspot.fr/2016/12/allo-je-voudrais-le-service-paye.html. Regulation is taking ages. Pleoples getting riffed are even now allowed to get access... — read more 

24 Vice President, 126 Directors, 621 Managers are reporting to JF. You will see 771 on management board with engineers around 4100, how could it be efficient? Employs are suffering from endless meetings, pass-downs, scrums .... requested by... — read more 

Everybody in IT know a that the industry swings back and forth between centralized and decentralized processing power. SaaS is a swing to centralized. With oracle shutting down the on-prem business (software and hardware), it will be swimming with... — read more 

The plan for the new year is as follows: (1) RIF as many as possible, (2) replace everybody else by Class of, Romania and India programs, (3) automate all jobs and Rif everybody. Happy New Year! The Cha-Ching trio

I see a thread missing from this board. Is this site administrated?

Total head count today is 136543 and yesterday it was 136368.. 175 added. It includes EMEA, NA also where head count has increased. Any views?

With LE getting closer to kicking the bucket and SC & MH focused on their short-term cash comp (they don't own any oracle stock), the game is short term profits and to hell with the long term. That means RIFs, RIFs and more RIFs across the globe... — read more 

Hi Larry, Maybe there is someone that lets you read this, they only thing we ever hear from you in the bottom part of your company is how many houses, cars, boats or even islands you buy. All that info is available online like here:... — read more 

Reminder that of last quarter, Software was down 20%, and Hardware down 10%. Neither is good, but Hardware is only like what, 15-20% of Oracle's total revenue stream. The Software losses are a much larger drag on overall numbers right now, to put... — read more 

Any plans for major cuts in OMC for 2017? What's known?

So according to the business press oracle's business s---s so badly that they have ramped up the Java audits to generate more revenue? Can anybody internally verify?

President-elect Donald Trump and his advisers met with 13 prominent technology executives at Trump Tower in New York on Wednesday. A pool camera captured introductory remarks from Mr. Trump and the executives. What follows is a transcript: Source:... — read more 

Over the past month, several of us have been able to piece together some of what is transpiring, despite the fact that our workgroup is not based in the US. Some of this remains rumour, but much is already confirmed and underway. Oracle is, as... — read more 

So Hurd claimed on the earning call that he's building an absolutely world class service/ support organization - you folks agree?

The excitement is building: what will they announce ?

So now oracle wants to reduce the minimum pay that it has to pay people and still get subsidies from SAN Antonio from $70k to $50k, cheap, cheap, cheap. Must be these dial for dollars jobs with 50% plus turnover.

Ive been keeping an eye on the number of employees in each cost center for the past few months and im seeing pretty much no fluctuation in the employees in the US. Beginning of October 53623k employees Beginning of November 53611k employees Now 53627... — read more 

"Rather, Oracle is discontinuing work on Project RAPID at the Riata Park facility, and for that reason, must lay off the employees at the Riata Park facility who are assigned to Project RAPID and have not found alternate positions at Oracle." Project... — read more 

Heard 70 people have been laid off in Austin. Anyone have more info?

It seems that IBM supporters are FUDing again against the competition. Knowing that the new coming POWER9 is slower than the current SPARC M7, the IBM crowd has tried to combat the competition with false rumors instead. Fact is, IBM executives have... — read more 

Well, the people developing the ZFS Storage Appliance care and so by proxy the people buying it because let's face it the ZFS Storage Appliance is called so for a reason: ZFS. And that's what the people care for. And in enterprise quality ZFS is... — read more 

https://www.nextplatform.com/2016/06/30/oracle-takes-xeons-sparc-s7/ While I find it hard to believe because this article shows oracles plans to go big with sparc. The article under estimates the amount of competition oracle has for those same... — read more 

The forthcoming earnings call should be very interesting: will oracle come clean on the layoffs and product terminations, discussed in the other threads, or will they try to bluff their way through with cheerleading. Interesting securities law and... — read more 

Many people have underestimated the decreased demand in enterprise IT spending overall. My guess is even the cloud business will not move as quick under these economic conditions. It will be interacting what is reported on dec 15. And follow on... — read more 

could sombody post a link where i can find more than here: http://languageio.com/index.php/blog/vegas-booth-2016/ I do not want to registere there! TIA

In case transfer to another team during RIF, he/she can still get the package?

Oracle is a company with significant overseas cash reserves, in the top 5 and didn't go crazy during the election. A big part of the message was about making it easier for companies to bring their overseas cash back. Regardless, feet need to be held... — read more 

Seems most of HW product dev is on hold. All meetings cancelled and people are openly gossiping. Management has already announced that the situation is difficult, projects will be reviewed and some will be cancelled.

Catz attending SV exec meeting with Trump on Dec 14th - good opportunity for oracle to explain its approach to US jobs/ layoffs. Opportunity to send Trump a briefing in advance ?