Confirmed: No June shutdown, not that fast.
Current product can sell for years, next product is on the shelf, no hurry to come out new product, no too many buyers anyway.
Arch hits the wall, high power/frequency/cost but no obvious performance advantages.
Current project is a place holder, won't last long. No points to spend big money building a product for a discontinued OS and limited customers.
A smaller team with limited budgets will remain for future arch development.
Oracle in EMEA is massively hiring in Bucarest asking Sparc, SAND, Storage etc engineers on different levels all start date 1 July 2017. any Oracle internal can check that this is true.
Guess the 20+ years experienced engineers will be gone soon.
Easy to grow from a tiny base, percentage wise
Relatively easy to convert on-prem support revenue to cloud
Let's see how much of backlog converts to revenues in 12 months, may be less than you think
Safra refers to Oracle's cloud losing business as "hyper growth". Are we now ready to concede that the majority of people commenting on here are disgruntled employees who perhaps didn't merit a raise or were underachievers on a plan?
Er, em, thanks for hijacking my thread title, 'Anonymous'...
I can indeed confirm that I did not start this new-thread-with-existing-title. Regardless (or as Yanks say it, 'irregardless'), OP's post seems to mirror what we are (or, in some cases, are not) hearing over here.
All that being said, morale in Systems is abysmal, the future is murky, and alcohol is being consumed in record quantities.
And we still really do miss Scott.
A year or two - with cloud hemorraging huge amounts of money oracle is not going to keep a money loosing HW business around. Stop kidding yourself
The big question is "Is the server product team profitable in smaller size?" If not, how long will Oracle keep it? May be they will keep it for another year or two.
Within SPARC there will be a reorg of HW combining East and West in June. I wouldn't be surprised if there were more layoffs at that time, removing redundant positions.
With Oracle's revenues declining (sw, hw & support) and heavy investment in the cloud, once they put HW (sparc) on life support there will be no bringing it back. No money for budgets and from a technology perspective they will be too far behind.
I don't think this is the same person who posted the original "Bollocks" entry. I say this because there are grammar errors that a Brit would not make. Doesn't mean the post is untrue though. In fact it sounds spot on.
You seem to be one of the few posters who is consistently nailing it. You say there will be no June shutdown of the HW. what's your guess about additional rifs in Sparc and x86, how soon, how large will the these rifs be, and at what locations?