company has a roadmap going forward and the worst is over
Roadmap going where exactly? Our cloud is bust. We've angered all our customers, gutted our product development teams, and replaced our most experienced and skilled sales staff with helpless children.
Every company lets go of low performers on a regular basis That is not what we are seeing at Oracle. Oracle is laying off extremely skilled people, many of whom have never had a bad review ever. Sure, some products and technologies are worth less to us than others. But we're letting people go that we need just to keep the lights on. An I.T. company can not survive without developing new and useful products or services. We are just not investing even remotely enough money in R&D these days (most of what we claim as R&D spending is really just operations cost of running our cloud, PDIT).