https://deadline.com/2019/08/annapurna-bankruptcy-near-megan-ellison-larry-ellison-credit-facility-hollywood-studio-1202663429/

There you go... https://www.datacenterdynamics.com/news/oracle-generation-2-cloud-go-live-australia/

How do I know if I am going to get a bonus for the last FY? Is there anything online that I can check to see when and how much should I be expecting?

Anyone know about outages with managed cloud services? Have been hearing about customers notifying Oracle of problems with cloud and autonomous dbs, they bring in consultants who don't tell them anything and then get billed and told it's fixed

While tech sector employment remains strong, that doesn’t mean everyone in the channel has been able to avoid getting pinked-slipped this year. AT&T, Lenovo, SAP and Oracle are among companies in the channel that have shed workers during the first... — read more 

Layoffs are coming, but nothing more than has been experienced in the past few months. Small layoffs have been occurring monthly since March of 2019 and it should be apparent to you that this will continue into the foreseeable future. Also should... — read more 

Rumor is cuts tomorrow. Same as always, random departments and orgs across the globe. First Monday of the month, every month, to keep layoff under the radar is a thing now.

No major layoffs this past week. Total since 6/1/2016 remains 24,450. Keep looking friends, keep looking!

What is the point of changing the company logo color from red to black?

The Pentagon is putting its controversial winner-takes-all $10bn cloud contract, dubbed JEDI, on hold as it investigates whether the whole process was biased in favor of Amazon. https://www.theregister.co.uk/2019/08/01/jedicloudcontract/

Larry Ellison won't get paid any more equity unless he gets Oracle's stock up to $80 https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.businessinsider.com/larry-ellison-no-new-equity-unless-oracle-stock-80-dollars-2017-9

The judge backed the Pentagon's decision to rule out Oracle. Oracle lost the cloud war for the Jedi contract for one simple reason. the Defense Department had the legal right to rule out Oracle on the grounds that it lacked a sufficiently large... — read more 

Rumor has it the new orders for the global multi-phase layoffs are to occur monthly now. This Monday August 5th is the next round. Below are snippits and links to the articles explaining the new marching orders. Hundreds are to be let go the first... — read more 

Nice tidy profit so thanks to all you Oraclers for helping with the profit.

I would like to share with you my thoughts on Oracle Cloud as someone who has worked for a partner/customer for many years. I just am so frustrated by using their cloud I need to vent somewhere! That being said, I know that my living at the moment... — read more 

https://www.thetelegraph.com/news/article/Pentagon-issues-forceful-rebuke-of-Oracle-as-14268151.php Opening paragraph: The Pentagon has issued an unusually strong rebuke of Oracle over the weekend, accusing the company of employing... — read more 

https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/companies/pentagon-issues-forceful-rebuke-of-oracle-as-debate-over-a-massive-federal-contract-turns-caustic/ar-AAF3n26 The Pentagon issued an unusually strong rebuke of Oracle over the weekend, accusing the company... — read more 

Oracle is lumped together as part of others. https://www.gartner.com/en/newsroom/press-releases/2019-07-29-gartner-says-worldwide-iaas-public-cloud-services-market-grew-31point3-percent-in-2018

No major layoffs this past week. Total since 6/1-2016 remains at 24,450. Stay cool in the heat everybody and keep looking for exciting new opportunities.

AWS -33% Microsoft-16% Google -8% IBM-6% Alibaba -5% Source: https://www.theregister.co.uk/2019/07/26/halfofallpubliccloudmoneygoestoamazonandmicrosoft/

So it looks like O’s cloud strategy has been scaled down from providing general cloud capabilities to the much more limited Exa for Oracle DB. More realistic in terms of O’s ability to deliver but clearly LE has given up on competing with AWS and... — read more 

AWS missed earnings targets and Amazon's stock price fell 2%. They're feeling the impact of ADW.

How is severence calculated? If I came in from an acquisition two years ago, and I was with that company three years prior, is that 2 or 5 years of tenure which counts towards that calculation?

Any layoffs coming in OCI or is it safe to join OCI now?

About 100 people laid off in Customer Success this week. That brings the total since 6/1/2016 to 24,450. Should be no question that layoffs continue, the numbers vary from week to week, but the direction is clear. Keep looking folks, keep looking... — read more 

Call me paranoid, but I think they’re going to increase the layoffs in the last 3 or 4 months of 2019. There have been a lot of layoffs this year and it seems to me that they will want to conclude the year and go into 2020 with a significantly... — read more 

The Empire Strikes Back: Trump discovers $10bn JEDI cloud deal may go to nemesis Jeff Bezos, demands probe https://www-theregister-co-uk.cdn.ampproject.org/c/s/www.theregister.co.uk/AMP/2019/07/18/jedicloiudwhite_house/

The truth is that any place is better. No job security doesn't exist out there. But toxicity in the work environment, at the levels it exists at O, is truly outside of the norm. The biggest issue you will face is that having O on your resume in... — read more 

Oracle database has been, for a long time, one of the most difficult to change elements in any IT architecture. A big part of the Consulting and ACS revenue has been related to upgrade, patch and maintain databases. A sizeable customer has to... — read more 

https://insights.dice.com/2019/07/15/oracle-software-engineers-pay/ Oracle Entry-Level Software Engineers: Solid Pay for a Hard Job

We're losing people left and right. Is this an Oracle-wide issue?

A lot of the old products like RMS has not had a major on prem release since 2016. Is it in maintenance mode? Has Oracle given up on it? What does the future hold for RGBU, as the SaaS adoption hasn't been that great?

Looks like reality finally caught up with the Customer Success org (or whatever they are called now) and about half of the org has been put on 30 day notices. The Stormbreaker axe fell hard and swift. Good luck, peeps.

I see that the layoffs i relatively smaller portions are happening quite often,and are restricted to certain locations and departments. The fact is that they are happening in this manner more and more often. Is that the new strategy and the new... — read more 

Some small but no major layoffs this week. Total since 6-1/2016 is 24,350. Keep looking and accept no imitations of the layoff report.

Communications (Tekelec/Acme) and Hospitality (Micros) GBU's have seen some small rif's over Q4 & Q1 and seems like many sales and exec's are leaving on their own too. SVP GM of Hospitality just resigned to be CEO at a much smaller company which... — read more 

Surprise, surprise. With the Israel startup accelerator now canned, the rest will go too as the Big O allows any startup to join from the kitchen... — read more 

Comment on other threads talks about an incoming layoff, anyone has info about it? When would it take place and where?

To nobody’s surprise, the Federal Claims Court judge dismissed Oracle’s complaint on the Jedi cloud contract, allowing Pentagon to announce the winner as early as next month. Hint: the winner won’t be oracle! Eat your heart out LE - now the whole... — read more 

And is it paid all at once?