In view of all the unannounced layoffs and deprioritization of various development efforts, which oracle products, other than DB, can a customer buy without having to fear that they will not be supported / will be terminated going forward? Very confusing absent clear announcements from oracle
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Fusion Apps and other prod dev groups had some small RIFs on 8/3, but not anywhere near the 10% mentioned here.
Also def not going into maintenance mode. It has its challenges (to put it kindly), but this is one of the areas where O has significant advantages over the competition.
"Fusion Apps looks like it will be put out of it's misery soon. Layoffs last week (about 10%) and talk of "maintenance mode"."
I'm not an Oracle employee, but fascinated by the chaos of this company. Just to clarify: when we say Fusion Apps, does this cover all the ERP software? And does Fusion Apps include product families like financial management, human capital management, customer relationship management, supply chain management, procurement, and so on?
It looks like we'll be seeing hordes of employees lined up for the guillotine when Fusion Apps gets whacked.
Very few companies use Oracle Linux. Oracle Linux is like Solaris. They are mostly only for internal consumption. They may have a few customers but that's all. The business world use Red hat or Centos 6/7.
Isn't O + Linux like polar opposites ? Linux implies free (or like-free), open-source, agile, cheap. And O implies ....
IBM invested in p-linux via a $2b center setup in NC a few years back, I'm am effort to phase out it's AIX, but had very poor penetration of p-linux on it's p-series frames. It continues to be forced to develop and support AIX on the basis of customer demand. It's not entirely implausible that O would continue with Solaris dev (in a highly reduced capacity) to keep catering to it existing customer base, but O has a slightly different problem - IBMs customer base was significant with p-series investmemt, and they loved LPAR virtualization. Solaris, on the other hand, has a very diminishing customer base, with no FOSS and no apps being developed for it. My guess - we will continue with Solaris support in a "10%" mode , and let it die slowly over next year. This is just my guess, so don't threaten to sue my a$$
I'm Linux fan and I'm sure that Linux folks do not want Oracle Linux.
In fact, they have use Oracle Linux to use Oracle DB or Exadata.
Was'nt Fusion Apps TK's biggest bet. Should'nt he be held answerable for this cash burning machine.
Fusion Apps looks like it will be put out of it's misery soon. Layoffs last week (about 10%) and talk of "maintenance mode".
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Sparc is dead and Solaris to complex, Oracle LINUX. Move on
I would avoid doing anything new on Oracle or IBM products, and if you can, move existing applications away from these platforms. Both companies are continuing with frequent layoffs and massive attrition. Competitors are hiring away the best people in droves. How many Oracle sales reps do you have, and how many of them are new? Technical people in tech support and field sales consulting are being laid off and are leaving. You will not have any experienced people to support you if you have problems. Expect year-over-year revenue declines to resume in a big way when Oracle announces Q1FY2018 earnings in September. The revenue and margin declines will only lead further to a vicious cycle of layoffs.
Good luck trying to support on-prem security software. It's in maintenance mode. Good luck getting patches.
I don't get why they seem hell bent on killing Solaris and Sparc. Sure, it isn't growing any more, but it's still a cash cow. I wonder if Ellison is thinking of selling it off. Fire as many people as possible to make it more profitable to maximize the sale price. Maybe HPE will buy it? Who am I kidding, HPE doesn't know where its next meal is coming from.
"Very confusing absent clear announcements from oracle"
And that is the point. Oracle won't make "clear" announcements, especially when they are trying to hold onto customers and employees for as long as it is convenient for them to do so.
IMO, SaaS and database are the areas where Oracle has the best chance for success. Everything else is questionable. This post gave an interesting look on the competitive situation - https://www.thelayoff.com/t/Ov7bHfa