Thread regarding Oracle Corp. layoffs

Oracle has the policy not to comment on rumors

A friend working a Oracle told me a few years ago, that Oracle has the policy not to comment on rumors like this one (especially on some strange website). The reason she told me is simple: Once you start commenting on one, you give more credibility to the ones you don't comment later. It never commented to the steadily reappearing rumors that SPARC and Solaris would be killed later the acquisition of Sun, and now we are at 11.3 and M7/S7. I remember that competitors came into our offices and speculated all day long about the demise of both. Oracle later published a roadmap because we as customers wanted it, but they never commented in a public way on those rumors.

I further think it hard to believe that people where informed on "you stay" meeting and those report their knowledge to this forum (which would be in my company a breach of confidentiality) , but not to the press and foremost not to their colleagues not to be informed, colleagues you are friends with or at least have worked for years. You inform all at once, because things like that are almost impossible to keep secret. That just doesn't sound sound.

Furthermore the list of allegedly axed systems looks strange: Somebody says S is dead and T is dead and M has a future. When you moving all the company in the direction of cloud as many have stated here, you don't use the largest systems, you use the small or middle sized systems. A rumor axing the M-Class would make more sense than a rumor axing the T- and S-class, especially when looking to my datacenter.

It may be true or not, but something here is strange about this rumor.

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-1zft

Can you elaborate what BU these are? Is it related to sparc dev? What site Santa Clara? Burlington?

Please share.

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Post ID: @3low+KFQuDdR

WE'll see soon

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Post ID: @2smq+KFQuDdR

Unfortunately most of it's true. Colleagues of over a decade have gotten unofficial notices. I.e a product development BU of 140/160 we're just notified. ETA mid-late Jan '17

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Post ID: @1zft+KFQuDdR

Of course Oracle will be profitable when it's run by nothing but new college hires. They could be even more profitable if they got rid of some of that dead weight at the top. They have the highest paid CEOs in the industry and none of the lower level employees have seen a raise in decades.

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@cdy

See here:

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-09-23/oracle-cuts-ellison-s-pay-to-42-million-ceos-get-41-million

LE and CoCEO pay got cut. LE was pushing for an increase and got denied.

http://www.businessinsider.com/larry-ellison-oracle-will-be-more-profitable-than-ever-2016-11

LE, after being denied his increase and taking this as a personal attack, comes up with his new strategy of "we're not going to sell, we're going to rent".

If Oracle is going to rent instead of sell, and if this is accurate, then there is no reason to have an S or T series. M is their best offering, so they would just roll that into their own systems. For Solaris, if they are going internal, that means no more service contracts and development will be entirely for internal consumption to improve the cloud, and at that point it might not even be worth keeping Solaris at all. Oracle develops on Linux already, so why have both? Solaris is dumped. Oracle has already announced this path.

That means that if you are not M7 hardware, if you are not on a SW team with crossover application to Linux and the rental strategy, you are probably on the chopping block, and there really would be no need for a team meeting. This is just based on public information. You are looking for the "big announcement", well, there it was, on 16 Nov.

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Post ID: @iks+KFQuDdR

Why would they go big on sparc at openworld just to cut projects months later? They will look unstable to the world.

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Post ID: @cdy+KFQuDdR

This is all crazy fiction.

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Post ID: @fvd+KFQuDdR

Oracle may not officially comment, as per their policy, but that my not stop their agents from commenting on this site.

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Post ID: @bho+KFQuDdR

Imagine if we were to respond to every single blurb posted on the net

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