Onpremises apps are back. Formal org in place to sell it ERP, PS, Siebel. Not sure if it is good or bad.
12 replies (most recent on top)
Will it be a millennial run org? They will find the cheapest labor they can find to sell that old trash.
Surely acquisitions are about buying customers?
Oracle lost so much business to SAP over the last couple years in their foolish strategy to jump start cloud with no cloud product to sell. They left good customers and great sales people hanging, pressurised the field to sell product not ready for market and Walked away from on premise evaluations everywhere. Hundreds of millions of dollars all going to the competitive camp. I know because we picked up oracle OP installed based customers who upgraded away from oracle. Oracle didn’t even compete.
The license team has been around for a couple years. They sell On Prem Apps - EBS, PSFT, JDE, Hyperion, and Siebel. There are still net new deals but most are just expansions.
@VCzBcoh-1whr One has to wonder, years from now, when they look back to analyze Oracle's demise, will the biggest problem be the appalling treatment of Oracle's employees? These people will spread far and wide, they will make the IT decisions of the future, and that may play the largest part of the destruction.
LE, employee abuse is not a good way to run a company.... unless you are trying to run it into the ground.
@VCzBcoh-1xzx Oracle acquires companies with the idea that no innovation will ever be required. Just maintain them into their graves. No real innovation is ever done on acquired software. Some integration might happen, then nothing.
Oracle is a 1957 Edsel with acquired contraptions appended in haphazard fashion all over it. The whole company needs to be sc-apped.
Oracle sh-- on Solaris, and all the good, smart and focused people they obtained in the merger. All those people are out in the business world and guess what? They are not recommending Oracle. Or Solaris. Or their DB. Plenty of other options have emerged in the almost 10 years since the Sun purchase. I believe that mgmt felt their Sun-Oracle customers would just fall in line. Nope! Turns out there was no compelling reason to stick around.
On-Prem software has fallen behind because of lack of investment, not competitive anymore, just compare Siebel which was awesome to SFDC - SFDC winds hands down on functionality and look & feel, same for HCM v WorkDay - workday wins hands down. That’s what happens when you have 3 stooges with no understanding of the customers, competitors and technology running the company. It’s over!
what hardware? the sun servers that aren't developed anymore or the micros pos (literally pos) mini's that hospitality sells? oracle has no hardware business and no credibility as a hardware vendor, they threw out any chance of that when they killed off JF org and stopped investing in solaris. maybe they can still seel some c##py storage ?
Now they just need to incentivize the sales teams to sell hardware to go with the on-prem licenses. We should never have walked away from our on-prem business and customers to chase AWS. Even today we have customers standing in line for on-prem software and hardware, but the sales teams are told to push cloud products these customers don't want.
Can we PLEASE get EBS back for our own systems? FA is so f---ing awful.
It’s because the SaaS business is a joke.