The total for calendar year 2017 has now reached 3,000. That includes the prior 2,900 year to date plus the layoffs this pas week of 40 or so in the CEGBU and unreported singles and doubles. Slow week whereas layoffs are concerned, related to the... — read more 

10 times faster and cheaper at running oracle DB than AWS - prove it !

So oracle makes it look like they had a great Q3, but that doesn't agree with my sense of reality, so any thoughts about what they did to goose up these numbers? I mean, surely this is not just organic growth, got to be lots of acquired revenue in... — read more 

So tired watching colleagues leaving on their own or being let go as the rest of us not know what is going on or what to expect tomorrow. At the same time MH & SC tell analysts and reporters all is great - and getting better. It is the complete... — read more 

Clinton Foundation going out of business? Why would such a wonderful important non profit be going out of business? Oracle supported the Clinton Foundations database, any truth to this? Guess she couldn’t sell access anymore, don’t know though.

Did you folks see MH on CNBC? Cloud will not result in IT layoffs - really? Oracle will do things that internal IT people did before such as set up and run infrastructure, upgrade applications, etc. , but oracle doing it will not cost them their... — read more 

Do you have any updates on layoffs in Saint Petersburg, Russia. The last I heard was that about 250 will be let go before 5/31. Any truth in this?

Check out SC's fawning letter to the Chairman of the FCC at theregister.co.uk, talk about brown nosing to get the DoJ of Oracle's back. #noshamenomorals

"show me an incumbent bigco failing to adapt to change, I'll show you top execs paid huge cash compensation for quarterly and annual goals" No F ing kidding how perfectly does that describe Oracle!

Confirmed: No June shutdown, not that fast. Current product can sell for years, next product is on the shelf, no hurry to come out new product, no too many buyers anyway. Arch hits the wall, high power/frequency/cost but no obvious performance... — read more 

The quarterly earnings call coming up, here is a chance to help the analyst community ask the right questions of the theee overload monsters. Please contribute. To get us started: What is the succession plan? Which businesses - HW, on-prem apps... — read more 

According to Inc and As You Sow foundation SC & MH overpaid by $121m on total comp of $196.5. Shameful greed! Actially overpaid by much more if you understand the extent to which they are running oracle onto the abyss

Thoughts?

When Oracle Labs was shutdown we (in the HW group) were told that it wouldn't happen to us. Then BAM! 30% laid off in HW group. To quote MH (I heard him say this in person and as best as I can recall): "I'm not sure why we need the HW group when we... — read more 

The products are typically OK - in line with competition... Guess which part they do not like...

Lay off is confirmed in Bedford (Former AcmePacket) Everyone is looking for new opportunities.

Looks like about 2,900 YTD This week so far: 519+ chile 200 CGBU 239 UGBU 70+ HSBGU 10+ Unreported on singles and doubles, let's say abou 100 Prior total CYT 2,300 That gets you about 2,900 CYT Anything missing from this?

Heard that US HW and Tech sales have been pushing out sales reps and KADs, specifically targeting anyone over 55 regardless of performance.

Laid off as of this morning. 3/7/17. All QA/DEV/80% Sustaining. Health care ends at EOD! How nice. Sh--ty severance package but not walked out. Treated humanly for once. Good Luck Oracle is falling!

When AWS went down the world noticed because AWS matters, when oracle cloud goes down, which it Does regularly, nobody gives a sh.. because oracle cloud irrelevant. Eat your heart out LE - you've failed! And no amount of stupid spam from oracle hr is... — read more 

Any layoffs to report this week? Location, group/ function, number of people

Based on the other threads below it is clear to me that oracle has decided to shut down the hardware business as of the new fiscal year starting June 1. Now if they had integrity they would have announced it so that investors, customers and employees... — read more 

Further cuts expected in various HW groups in anticipation of consolidation and JF departure.

JFow and most of his directs will be leaving this late summer.

Cloud = service: oracle outsourcing support to India and Rumania, Fusion = unreliable junk code $10bn revenue: LE = senile mushroom cloud == what a F:Ing JOKE, sad really No future

What's going on, did they take February break this past week and temporarily stop laying people off? Please report any layoffs you're aware of. Keep their feet to the fire with truth and transparency.

Still looking here and lots of recruiter action but nothing solid. 13 years hardware dev engineer.

Anyone else hearing rumors of cuts in X86? I mean near term....Burlington?

Looks like 300 this past week across the world. 2,000 in January bring us to total for the calendar year of 2,300 Keep reporting layoffs as the occur and The Truth will add them up and report out for the world to see You can run but you can't hide LE... — read more 

To close on the story , Oracle SPARC and Solaris is dead. Of course the spin to story (for customers) is that they will be releasing minors, but that's just running in a wind with candle. If I were a customer, I would get off from Solaris , and... — read more 

Shakeup in middleware management? What is going on?

Looks like we have layoffs in China of about 200 pepople and India of 40-50. What about US and Europe - anything to report ? Let's do weekly summaries going forward

I learned to be an SA with Solaris, starting in 1995. Over the years I watched it's decline as Linux matured. I also learned that the open source community was way more valuable as an SA when it came to fixing bugs, getting help, etc.