Thread regarding Oracle Corp. layoffs

Simon: Oracle has filed the WARN notice, officially 964 only in SCA ... this has been a carnage

http://www.mercurynews.com/2017/09/05/oracle-slashes-more-than-900-santa-clara-jobs-more-worldwide/

Clarification...

Solaris 12 as a marketing release was cancelled. Solaris 11.4 is built from what was the Solaris 12 source code, so it's more of a renaming exercise. s10 BZ should make it in fine a--11.4 was never going to ship before 2018 anyway.

@P6Uskk5-col ; M9 is confirmed cancelled, so no future for SPARC after M8. This decision has been taken by ES on the certainty that in 3 years there will be no more on-premise business, so no need to have a roadmap for this. And Oracle uses x86 in the cloud.... Solaris died 6 months ago, dev team are now so small that after S12 was cancelled they have been not even able to integrate the Solaris 10 zones in S11.4 in time for the scheduled announcement in august (and still working on it right now).

I was spared this round but hope to get my severance next round (which will be very close)

And Oracle is saying nothing about what this means for the future of SPARC or Solaris.

It's funny, isn't it, after they were so forthcoming about OpenSolaris!

Simon, how about sending emails and asking them what's going on to the following to see if the have any comments: law...ce dot el...on at oracle dotcom, s...a dot c..z at oracle dotcom, m..k dot h..d at oracle dotcom. Love to hear what they have to say in response

Simon Sharwood here - reporter for The Reg.

Feel free to send more stuff - we'd like to keep the story going. I hear the robo-call from Edward Screven was a horror.

And Oracle is saying nothing about what this means for the future of SPARC or Solaris. Anything that clarifies that is welcome

ssharwood at sitpub dotcom

"When I went to the Santa Clara campus on business a few years ago, the parking lots were always jammed by 9 AM. Anyone in the South Bay want to report on what it looks like tomorrow?"

We, the people got layoff on Friday, can all drive to SCA campus on 9AM to make the parking lot full, pretend nothing has happen. Hope you will join us.

All those people said the Oracle's massive layoff on Friday 9/1 was fake news, shame on you. Hope when you get layoff next time, you will get the same treatment from others.

Your own sh-- please

Almost all roamer has been approved true. Those who keep saying fake news can you please clean up your own sh--?!

Nope this is real news, I was laid off on Friday and had no idea it was coming. Sounds like some HR clown trying to put people off the scent. Oracle HR cannot get a lay off right, Oracle HR or Oracle Human Reduction.

Whoever is saying this is fake news is 100% incorrect. As the layoff's occurred, people were packing their stuff because people did not know who specifically is affected. My relative packed their stuff only to find out that he was not affected. He does not know the full extent, but definitely affected the Sun teams. Over 1/2 of her team was affected.

"Can't really blame the employees for Oracle's lack of openness." Darn straight! O basically never comments on layoffs. They timed this one, which whacked thousands of people across multiple states (and some other countries) to fall on the Friday before a major US holiday (Labor Day, in a particularly lovely touch). O knew the news coverage would be minimal, because they confirm nothing and because it sounds like many of the layoffs were done per WARN as "pay in lieu of notice," i.e., we're whacking you today but will pay you through the end of October and don't set foot on the job site. The WARN notices with the states may not be published for some time depending on whether a state releases them weekly or monthly.

But yeah, keep telling yourself it's Fake News.

A former colleague in hardware confirmed the extent of the layoffs, though he did not have exact counts. Sustaining seems to have been hit less hard than design.

Can't really blame the employees for Oracle's lack of openness.

When I went to the Santa Clara campus on business a few years ago, the parking lots were always jammed by 9 AM. Anyone in the South Bay want to report on what it looks like tomorrow?

(I know, I know, day after Labor Day, "fake news!", why do you hate Oracle America...)

If all you've got is anonymous comment from this site then it's not really confirmed sources. It needs somebody to identify themselves and speak on the record. Either that or for Oracle to confirm there's been a massive layoff or hint at it via some other announcement.

The article doesn't confirm the threads on this site as The Register looks as though it got a lot of its info from this site:

"Threads on The Layoff suggests that around 2,500 layoffs have been made, covering Solaris, SPARC silicon development and storage hardware, including tape libraries, with one result being that development work has ceased on the ZFS Storage Appliance. The fate of Solaris and SPARC silicon remains unclear."

El Reg is a good start.

How about if a bigger outlet picks this up and runs with it?

@P6Uskk5-iqe

no, you are fake news.

This is fake news!!!