Oracle to Layoff 2000 Jobs

Joey Benington writes "Oracle plans to cut 2,000 jobs across the Siebel and Oracle work forces after completing its merger with Siebel last week. 'We will retain 90 percent of Siebel's support, development engineers, sales and sales consultants,' said Oracle CEO Larry Ellison. 'Most of the Siebel cuts will be in the back office, and nontechnical staff. The majority of the cuts will be Oracle people, not Siebel.'"

Comments

How do you layoff jobs?

[Jivha]

What in the hell does laying off *jobs* mean? I thought employees were laid off(or hired), and jobs were created or destroyed.

Although this could be correct if it were at Apple. Imagine:

"Apple lays off 1 Job(s)"

Re:Its People!

[Ryano]

"It should read, "Oracle to layoff 2000 people" Not jobs, people. People are losing their jobs. Its a sad thing."

Now that you've broken the ice on the pedantry thing, can I just say that it should be "Oracle to lay off 2,000 people"?

Re:Only 2,000 jobs lost

[dsginter]

These cuts are so that Larry can maintain his 450 foot personal cruise ship.

Here's how

[aapold]

Delete from payroll
where salary > 150000
and upper(lname) != 'ELLISON';

commit;

Oracle Sails vs Oracle Sales

[digitaldc]

Come on, how else is Oracle going to afford to keep sponsoring their elite yacht racing?