What do all these people do?
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That building is still better than the average HP product, so there's that...
@1gj If you are talking about BRM, I've seen far worse, like say the Hewlett-Packard campus in Ft. Collins, CO.
@129 The condition of our buildings is embarrassing. Oracle REF has no say, it is all JLL driven, and they have cut the budget so much. JLL couldn’t care less how are buildings look. JLL should be ashamed of themselves. DW thinks everything is going smooth.
@130 Oracle occupies only half a floor in building 5. They also have the lab in building 7.
@12g If I recall correctly, O moved out of building number 5 a few years ago, before the pandemic. Last I saw only buildings 1 and 2 still had O staff in them.
@rt SCA has also been mostly leased out. After the 2017 SUNW layoff, which was over 50% of staff, the campus was a ghost town. Office space was consolidated and empty buildings were leased out.
Just for kicks I looked to see if there are any open positions in BRM. I didn't see any. Sounds like a it's only a question of time until O either sells the campus or rents it al out.
@h0 keep in mind that its half a floor in building 5.
When REF is done there will only be a handful of buildings. The buildings are being severely neglected just look at the landscape and how basic operations such as daily cleaning is being done. So sad !!!!!!!! THAT REF DW completely destroyed a fantastic organization.
The huge campus that used to be Sun Microsystems in Santa Clara, that Oracle bought pennies on the dollar, is it also up for sale?
@hv all US locations are up for sale or lease. In Broomfield we have a 24 million dollar job starting. Full buildout of a new lab.
All the colorado sites are up for sale.
@gn Here's the thing about Broomfield: Only 2 of the 7 buildings in BRM are occupied by O, and those are pretty empty themselves. The rest are leased out to other tenants. There aren't that many employees left at BRM to begin with. The same is true at other campuses.
"Going back to the Sun Microsystems days, that location has typically been the center of tech support and support renewals."
In other words everyone there is completely expendable/replaceable.
Pick any location and say the same thing. I think OP has some chip on their shoulder. A better question would be why does Oracle have so many levels of executive management raking in the big paychecks and pretending to be important.
@gh OCI is there too. But most of the campus has been leased out.
Broomfield is legacy Sun.
Going back to the Sun Microsystems days, that location has typically been the center of tech support and support renewals.
Maybe first tier support. Customers find new issues, stuff that isn't in any knowledgebase, problems that gets escalated.
@ba A lot of customers pay for pricey service contracts fro ZFS and Solaris, so it appears that some people still care. Maybe not LE or SC.
Axe the entire nest. Those services can all be provided by AI.
@a1 The number of ZFS QA people is minuscule, which might be why they were able to dodge the wheel of misfortune random layoff selector.
@ba A lot of customers pay for pricey service contracts fro ZFS and Solaris, so it appears that some people still care. Maybe not LE or SC.
how did they fall under the replacement radar? Nobody cares about zfs anymore and oci-everything can and should be automated with ai agents. not rocket science folks. you know, shareholder value and all that.
What about Broomfield? Could you explain?
They apparently have QA architects for OCI and zfs