Rumor has it the exec's and LE are implementing an exit strategy to wind down Oracle. It starts soon with a bump to stock dividends. Oracle has about 49 billion in cash and short term investments. It's been spending about 10 billion a quarter in stock buy backs to prop up the price. That will last for another 5 or six quarters. Next plan is to scuttle divisions, sell off assets and customer base where the profits are not high and, yes reduce headcount.
It's a two year exit strategy for everything but the core database business that will be milked as long as possible. The idea is to bump up stock price over the next 6 quarters.
No plans for new investment outside of the hail Mary for the Autonomous database.