Much of the layoff discussion here is focused on SPARC/Solaris. How likely is the Intel system group going to be impacted? Will this area be spared? Are they considered a key part of the cloud strategy at Oracle?
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It's my prediction that in the next round of layoffs they'll keep the most competent people between SPARC and x86 and move them to x86. They merged their organizations as I understand. This is what they did for m series and t series in January. I don't think x86 is safe.
Unclear right now on X86 and have not heard of any layoffs for systems group. It is declining slower than SPARC.
-akx's comments are accurate.
I read rumors of debate at the exec level regarding buy vs build for Intel systems months ago. Did the departure of JF have any impact on this debate?
Is that true of all the intel x86 server products? or is there room for some reduction? I think the sale of these servers outside the cloud or in engineered systems such as exadata is pretty much dead, right? Do they need the current head count just to support the cloud efforts?
All of Oracle's OPC, BareMetal and Cloud@customer infra as well as engineered systems is built on their intel x86 servers. Highly unlikely that it'll be impacted. however, the server products themselves , i believe , are not doing good compared to HP, etc and also do not have breadth in portfolio compared to competetion. Possible that these might not be sold on-prem , a la FS1.