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Oracle Dumps PeopleSoft Employees

Posted by CowboyNeal on from the cleaning-house dept.

curtain writes "The first move in Oracle's dismantling of PeopleSoft has begun. The cuts will affect about 9% of the 55,000 staff of the combined companies. From the article: "We're mourning the passing of a great company," Peoplesoft worker David Ogden as saying. Other employees said they would rather be sacked than work for Oracle."

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  1. Re:The economy strikes again... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    So what? Indians have to eat too.

  2. Re:The economy strikes again... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    So what? Indians have to eat too.

    Then let them eat each other. Nobody will miss them.

  3. Re:How will this effect support? by Donny+Smith · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    >I wonder how this will effect customer support, and patching/upgrading?

    And I wonder how stupid you must be to post such question here when you have a PeopleSoft support contract and Oracle's web site to go to, you stupid sonnova bitch.

    I don't even think that "major project" is any of your concern. You're just trying to FUD here....

  4. Re:Welcome to Corporate America by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    7. Handfull of shareholders get even richer at the expense of thousands of families and the business es they patronize.

    Erm, if those families didn't see the layoffs coming from a year away and didn't line-up alternative jobs or financial strategies, they're just plain STUPID!

    8. Most people and the local economy lose.

    It's the frickin 21st century with globalization everywhere, local economies CAN'T AFFORD to rely on a single industry. If they still do, they will be destroyed sooner or later, whether they're in USA, Switzerland, or Singapore.

    Take your old-fashioned whines elsewhere!