I've decided to pack my bags and leave Oracle. I must admit there still are a great number of really good people still at Oracle and I will miss them. In all honesty there are more good people that have left Oracle than remain. I have had a new manager every year for the past 3 years. Each time I get a new manager its because my old manager left the company.
I work as as sales consultant, after losing my car allowance at 600 per month, and 80% of my bonus (based on cloud revenue) as well as over time, I am looking at a 50k jump in pay at just about every place I interview with.
Also the culture at these other organizations is refreshing. I am seen as an asset and they are willing to work with me to modify the bonus and base pay to what I want. The base pay is 160k to 170k as an average and the OTE is about 200k to 210k. Most people blow past the OTE.
Oracle's culture is toxic. I wont miss the behemoth machine. Best of luck to the rest of you. Glad the earnings were high and the company is doing well. As for me I will look after my own best interests. Oracle has shown me that looking after you own interests is the way to go. So I'm getting more pay and respect somewhere else.
As far as the next gen cloud goes Amazon has kept up and will be as good as if not better... Sadly the cloud is what Oracle is betting its future on. I'm betting on Amazon... its the leader and won't let Oracle muscle in with out a fight. Good luck selling. You should read the 3 links below and compare to Oracle's new IAAS.
https://aws.amazon.com/new/reinvent/compute/
https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2017/02/now-available-amazon-ec2-i3-instances-next-generation-storage-optimized-high-i-o-instances/
https://www.flashgrid.io/wp-content/sideuploads/resources/FlashGrid_OracleRAC_on_AWS.pdf
Squeezing the sales force until it quits... putting all your eggs in one basket, not investing in infrastructure for IAAS, not putting the customer first, being incredibly expensive, offerings are not integrated with IAAS yet... the list goes on. The next two years will be a beat down.
AT&T bought the Exadata cloud machine. Lets see... what part of the Sales organization has the skills to support that? Well, I guess we will have teh product development managers support that too. PMs are the new SCs.