Lot of FUD here. 1) Top500 supercomputers are huge clusters. Linux scales well on clusters. HPC clustered workloads run number crunching for loops on a same set of grid points, over and over again. Everything can be run in parallel in the cpu cache... — read more 

But they lied. People are getting Rif'd left and right. People are slowly disappearing.

Linux has very bad scalability. Linux scales excellent on SGI UV3000 and similar servers, but they are scale-out clusters capable of only running clustered HPC workloads such as number crunching, BI analytics, etc. Such clusters can have 10.000s of... — read more 

It appears based on many posts that in he next few weeks several SPARC dev teams will be axed most likely sites Santa Clara, Austin and Burlington in US other teams worldwide. If anyone wants to add or correct to this to warn fellow oracle mates, do... — read more 

http://money.cnn.com/2016/12/04/investing/donald-trump-tax-jobs/ In a series of tweets Sunday morning, Trump pledged to lower corporate taxes across the board. But he also said he would charge a hefty 35% tax for "any business that leaves our country... — read more 

Our own public institutions benefited from companies pushing for h1-b's because it fills their coffers and funds the presidents huge salaries. Tech companies been hiring at lower wages from a nice supply of our own universities. As far back as 2013... — read more 

Should have already been a blood bath. http://www.informationweek.com/strategic-cio/10-top-tech-companies-poised-for-massive-layoffs/d/d-id/1325015?image_number=9 2017 will likely be the year these projections come to fruition.

https://www.thestreet.com/story/13910622/1/amazon-shows-its-cloud-business-is-still-in-a-league-of-its-own.html Amazon does it all better and cheaper. The model seems to be blowing out the competition left and right.

Being actively recruited for hw dev jobs. I'm at Cisco which is going to hell also. I don't want them to land in a bad spot.

A friend working a Oracle told me a few years ago, that Oracle has the policy not to comment on rumors like this one (especially on some strange website). The reason she told me is simple: Once you start commenting on one, you give more credibility... — read more 

Stop spreading lies and getting everyone worked up. Sparc is just fine.

HPE, Dell etc etc

It's pretty clear they are in panic mode. They have acquired so many companies and without any real dividend the stock price will start to decline. This will put oracle in a vulnerable spot. They have to get costs down. How much did they spend on... — read more 

My estimates is about 2100 layoff as impact to hw project cancelations and another ?? On the Solaris side. Any wagers?

Our best efforts have not been able to verify the rumours. Oracle has denied it. A user tells us Solaris will be moved to maintenance mode and resources moved to Linux. That’s not quite enough for us to do a story. One of our sources is personally... — read more 

In light of new administration hunting down misuse of visa program and the offshoring behaviors. Add this trend in server market. Cloud winners will emerge from this tech downturn. I doubt it will be oracle of USAaybe oracle of India.

This was obviously coming for some time. All of the new Solaris development since Oracle took control has been very meager. As an example, there have been no system ABI changes in the past six+ years (which is why OpenIndiana can run Solaris 11... — read more 

I don't get it. He did it at HP and now at Oracle. He hires kids who know nothing about IT, spends millions to train them, pays them in peanuts, and lays off talented workers who are older. They wonder why our revenue is declining!

More confirmation that layoffs are being done weekly and steathily to avoid reporting laws + news articles. No warning given, just phone call and a fedex package

Does SPARC make money and if yes, what's the margin. We have opposing opinions on this - let's discuss here...

https://www.thelayoff.com/t/KBEVoB1

All hands meetings being cancelled on orders from legal to prevent news from spreading. Hardware teams being told to cease development. There will be no Solaris 12, final release will be 11.4. Orders coming straight from Larry. No info on timing yet. — read more 

More to come. No one is safe from legacy to cloud teams. Any hiring is to replace with cheaper labor more expensive employees. Post rumors and confirmations as No warnings at all have been given in advance of cuts and project cancelations.

If H1-b becomes risk they will accelerate job moves from US sites. As well as transfer major projects.

From HQ to Austin to EU.

Anyone know if they are planning Micros dev redundancies?

Does someone have reliable info on possible cuts and layoffs in Redwood City.

Hello All - I work for a small company that was acquired a while ago. Nobody got laid off as a result of acquisition, but I wanted to see if other people had similar experience. What I heard through the grapevine is that Oracle typically waits a bit... — read more 

Loosely defined is how they get away with not having to go on the record actually defining a strategy and new vision. It leaves them unaccountable to everyone but the top brass going them cost savings to boost earning reports for a failure to boost... — read more 

Has Safra had enough of Larry, Hurd and the whole oracle mess and is looking to join the trump administration ? She certainly doesn't need the money and being the co-CEO can't possibly be that much fun.