Hardware team once again was impacted - up to 2/3 of Sales Reps and Managers let go (or given until mid-June to find another job). No details on what happens to the remaining team.
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@r6 What is a hardware "audit" deal? That makes no sense.
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"Only ignorant fools would choose to stay at Oracle."
Not so.
There are a number of folks using the system to make big bucks!
They could layoff every member of mgmt and all it would do is make the worker bees tremendously happy.
was anyone actually doing the selling in hardware or was it all audit deals…?
All audit. That's all rhat the trad sales org knows how to sell.
was anyone actually doing the selling in hardware or was it all audit deals…?
Larry stated publicly a few years ago that 'hardware business is in decline and we just don't care'. Once the long term strategy became cloud focused the writing was on the wall that selling hardware wasn't going to last much longer and here we are. Cloud at customer systems and Exadata will be the only remaining hardware and used mainly to populate Oracle data centers or sold as cloud managed appliances in customer data centers.
Hardware team once again was impacted - up to 2/3 of Sales Reps and Managers let go (or given until mid-June to find another job). No details on what happens to the remaining team.
No great loss.
Steady YOY declines in HW revenue over the last 15+ years were always going to lead to this, so should not be a surprise to anyone in hindsight.
@bq It depends on where you are in your career. If you are young and looking for growth, it's a great place to temporarily land and get some experience, always knowing it won't last. If you are in the last portion of your career, it's not a bad place to wrap things up.
Is this something that should surprise anyone???
Only ignorant fools would choose to stay at Oracle.