On 3 Nov approx 400 people across multiple functions and lines of business were laid off
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Slowaris is officially dead.
@qb or to just stop paying support to Oracle...there are other options out there...
@ke Fujitsu has already announced they are getting out of the server market.
There are a lot of Solaris/Sparc customers out there who will need support for years. Solaris 10 support was supposed to have ended years ago, but customers keep signing checks for support.
While it is possible for customers to port their in house applications to Linux, it is not a trivial task. They don't even want to move to Solaris 11 as their S10 apps have been fully debugged for years, and many install S10 on S11 LDOMS. But seeing that O doesn't really want to support them anymore might be the kick in the pants to start moving to Linux.
Worldwide server sales market has grown at 45% this year compared with 2024. The moment O stops selling hardware (sparc or other eng systems), those customers are going to buy Fujitsu, Dell, HP, IBM and the Lenovo servers of the world. No matter what O does, the market is stubborn and speajs by itself.
@h6 Looks like they plan to milk Sparc/Solaris/Storage until the lights out date, offering skeletal and automated tech support. They probably think that customers will keep renewing their support contracts as they conclude that bad support is better than no support.
@h6 Very interesting, as O has committed to support Solaris through 2037, if I recall correctly. And the Romanians were quite inexpensive.
Customers who sign expensive service contracts aren't going to be happy with chat bots debugging their problems. The contracts have SLA's in them. Or maybe the chat bots will just automatically escalate the customer issues to the few developers who haven't been shown the door yet?
Solaris support in Romania is gone (65 people).
@a7 may be your friends are blind 🦯
Apparently went on the news yesterday evening in Romania as oracle with 4k persons is one the biggest IT employer
https://www.romaniajournal.ro/business/oracle-romania-plans-hundreds-of-local-layoffs-sources-report/
@ba when will it happen in UK?
Truth. And UK is next.
From what I have heard, salaried in Bucharest are rather low.
True news
I have asked several romanian colleagues in our office, and they have no news on this, so this seems anoter fake.
All I know support engineering are heavily targeted
Which business functions?