Thread regarding Oracle Corp. layoffs

Israeli court: Oracle did not meet security requirements for government cloud tender

https://www.calcalistech.com/ctech/articles/0,7340,L-3920727,00.html

The petition was denied and Oracle was ordered to pay legal expenses in the amount of NIS 90,000 (about $28,000) to each of the respondents. They will put it on the expense reports .....

Another celebration of the new DC and how safe and located in the underground car park.

This is nowhere near deep enough to avoid the Oracle licensing audit team, or their lawyers.

The corrupted old local management is now being redundant.
All the >20 years in former Tech org are let go

Oracle Israel leader was interviewed in the local financial press as part of the PR campaign and speaks from position.
Oracle lost in the government tender alongside Microsoft, and is currently suing the Government Procurement Administration and the winners. Oracle is considered a niche player in the server farm with a tiny market share. Renting an expensive DC in Jerusalem without any customers ? Does they have any realistic chance of changing the decision?

Opposition Leader Benjamin Netanyahu and his family are vacationing on a Hawaiian island owned almost wholly by Jewish-American billionaire Larry Ellison, a prosecution witness in the ex-premier’s criminal cases.

Netanyahu is on trial for charges of fraud and breach of trust in three separate cases, as well as bribery in one of them. He denies wrongdoing.

Ellison is one of several hundred prosecution witnesses in Netanyahu’s corruption trial. His name reportedly came up in two of the cases

https://www.timesofisrael.com/netanyahu-on-vacation-at-island-owned-by-larry-ellison-a-witness-in-graft-trial/

A confidential contract been signed with BlackCube (https://www.blackcube.com/) for competitive intelligence service and collection of information on the tender editors and Israel government officials involved on this tender.

Celebrations with startups to make them think we are "cool" ... how pathetic the local VP cloud (just IC not M ...)

As of today Microsoft has told the court that it seeks to remove the need to respond to Oracle's appeal of the loss of both in Israel's cloud tender (Nimbus)

In a statement sent to the court through its lawyers: "Oracle has argued that the Tenders Committee acted in an unlawful manner. "The tender will be considered seriously in order to ensure the fairness of the procedure and to ensure that the tender procedure was carried out lawfully.

From Microsoft's response it is clear that they not satisfied with the outcome of the proceeding but does not want to be part of Oracle's appeal.
The lawsuit came in the wake of Oracle's appeal of a loss in the tender and Amazon's AWS and Google winning the tender. After Oracle included Microsoft as a respondent the latter sent a response that it is not a party and does not intend to appeal.

Oracle local office survival depends on ability of government and all the ISV customers to replace Oracle DB

Oracle has hired the services of the business intelligence and investigative company CGI GROUP of Zvika Neve and Yaakov Perry to handle for it aspects related to the loss in the government cloud tender Nimbus.

Another person involved in the Oracle proceedings is Ezra Cohen, who worked in the U.S. Department of Defense under the Trump administration. Cohen serves as a government relations consultant for Oracle Global and assists in handling the legal process regarding the tender in Israel. Cohen has a rich history in intelligence and the appointment to a senior position in the Trump administration has become a symbol of the distrust the former president has acquired for the U.S. intelligence agencies.

https://www.calcalist.co.il/technology/article/r1jmqmuad

They are so desperate and use all means to stop and sabotage a tender that they not suitable to win

The court granted the state's request and will hear behind closed doors in the Oracle Israel administrative petition regarding the Nimbus cloud computing tender.

AS please podcast any update on your business development activity

So after 25 years the let עוזי free.
Now the rest of the 20+ years veterans and local friendly management will be on the reduction list.

As expected Oracle today appeals to court to cancel results of Nimbus cloud tender.

https://www.calcalistech.com/ctech/articles/0,7340,L-3912183,00.html

Oracle said in response: "Oracle is committed to supporting the State of Israel. We will continue to work to ensure that the government of Israel will have access to the most secure, reliable and advanced cloud computing technology."

Oracle is committed to squeeze more money from the state of Israel as we are loosing market and customers dislike our sales tactics .

From Oracle Israel page :
https://www.facebook.com/oracleisrael/photos/a.373377695962/10158212675780963

"I was happy to meet Foreign Minister Yair Lapid, and talk to him about the ways in which the private sector can strengthen the Avraham agreements and contribute to increasing regional stability."

They have no shame in trying to involve politics in business

The sponsored PR with SC https://www.calcalistech.com/ctech/articles/0,7340,L-3912017,00.html

Wow SC sounds like she’s nuts.

"This is my first visit outside the United States and I am very excited to be here"; This is what Safra Katz, CEO of Oracle Global, said today (Thursday) at a press conference she held upon her arrival in Israel on the occasion of the inauguration of the new data center established by the company in Jerusalem."

When asked about the protest of Google and Apple employees against working with Israel, Katz said: "When you connect to Oracle, you understand that we are committed to the United States and Israel. We are not flexible, there is nothing like our commitment to Israel. It is a free world and I love my employees, but if they do not agree with our mission to support the State of Israel, then maybe we are not the right company for them. Larry Allison and I are publicly committed to Israel, devoting our private time to the state, and no one should be surprised. "

"I do not meet with the press and I am not interviewed, only in Israel and India, because I have a lot of people there. Israel is very special for me and when I am here, I am at home, and if I am here for business I am available for communication. The reason I am here is that I wanted everyone to know "And without a contract with the government and a huge contract, we built a huge 9-story underground data center, where the most sophisticated computers in the world are located, with unique security systems. Because we were the last to reach the cloud, we had the opportunity to build the second generation cloud."

Oracle is a bad company and is considered that way in the cloud as well and blackmails the government every year because 20 years ago someone chose its technology for a database.

19. C. and her family arrived in Israel instead of celebrating the 4 of July. Huge celebration for the OCI cloud that the government of Israel will never use unless will be license audited to do so.

Welcome to land of Oracle lies and honey. "DjT" LE and SC

Oracle just don't know when to give up

with corrupt management who lie about everything and have a mindset where they just want to make whatever scam they are currently running.
Lucky this Israeli management team that SC in favor of them.

This week visited Israel RW the VP OCI Global Government Sector trying to support the local sales director and Bizdev on influencing customers on filling the empty racks on the new DC.

Luckily government clients are not stupid to switch to OCI and only for fear of licensing audit שare renewing contracts.soon

Waiting for the huge "bo-b" when SF will come soon

The sales team will continue to all of those "migrate to cloud or we write you up for all those license violation" "deals".

5. F. the (CISO) for the Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) who is now the IL site manager replacing the corrupted old and veteran Tech sales directors.

When will he realize with the UKI management how this site been operated ?
Will they start RIF process or use C&A for coverup ?

Better investment would be to put any savings into a 'lawyers fund' for the inevitable 'license audit'

I would want a lawyer to read every last character of this "deal". Oracle never does anything out of the goodness of it's heart as it doesn't have one. It should come with a wealth warning for sure.

Better investment would be to put any savings into a 'lawyers fund' for the inevitable 'licen$e audit'

Was this program to provide mentorship, cloud services and support to startups in Israel promoting cloud innovation been just a PR ? https://www.israel21c.org/oracle-opening-startup-accelerator-in-tel-aviv/

Zero revenue, no cloud innovation and just many press releases that been providing job security to the "VP" of marketing and several managers (see the gang photo in the web page)

Business as usual here @ the office. Same old customers , same bulls***t

Wow, 108 upvotes on this one. This must have really hit the mark.

https://www.theregister.com/2021/06/11/israel_gets_an_aws_region/
Oracle will soon make a desperate Press Release with SF celebrating again the opening of the local region.
No real customers want to move to OCI and their is no more leverage on this cloud once UN is compensated on licenses sales.

https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20210610006031/en/AWS-to-Open-Data-Centers-in-Israel

Understand the difference between AWS and ORACLE. The difference in investing and setting up the local Data Centers, the type of customers who are already hosted by them today compared to Oracle who rented several cabinets in a DC facility of a third party communications and computer company (who by the way one of the local business development director been employed by them)

Your "friendly" HR and all the "veterans" managers are monitoring this forum. Stay tuned for using C&E investigation for finding the leaks and the informers.

Total nonsense. HR doesn't give a sh-t about this site. They are busy pretending to work at Oracle. Look at the monkey-see-monkey-do HR lady in the TG lawsuit. Didn't want to attend a meeting because she then might be "liable" for something. LOL. They are just as scared as most of the management, afraid they might have to actually do work! or help someone!

Your "friendly" HR and all the "veterans" managers are monitoring this forum. Stay tuned for using C&E investigation for finding the leaks and the informers.

Stop asking that, it’s pointless as posting personal info is not allowed here. One can name c-suits as they are already public figures.

From Oracle Facebook page https://www.facebook.com/oracleisrael/posts/10158141536040963

Who is this just promoted IC5 claim to be VP Cloud ?

Here is how we spend our marketing $$ , luxury trips with the same IT vendors and competitors to Dubai.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DTN24Ftm2ko

SC will come to Israel to launch the new and non usable and local colocation site which they tell everyone in the office and the local press that costs $200M to rent from Bynet.

Huge spending for zero income as no one want to be hosted by Oracle.

Now Oracle PR is using the newspapers to sponsor bad publicity like "black clouds -
Israel puts all its cloud services in the basket of Google and Amazon.But the two giant companies control the revolutionaries of the new America - and the Ministry of Finance must remember that this America is dangerous to Israel without entering into the technical considerations that led the tenders committee to choose Amazon and Google. If the committee members considered the organizational culture of the two companies. This is because at the cultural level it is very possible that with all the appreciation for their technological capabilities, they will not be reliable enough over the next seven years"

Remind me who was SC and LE sponsoring in the last elections ? what is Oracle corporate culture ?

70% cut to Israel office would not impact license delivery or support.
Unnecessary manpower and a layer of executives who do nothing in HR,Finance,ACS,OCS,Marketing and tech sales.