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Oracle Lays Off More Than 1,000 Employees (zdnet.com)
An anonymous reader writes: According to the Mercury News, Oracle is laying off approximately 450 employees in its Santa Clara hardware systems division. Reports at The Layoff, a discussion board for technology business firings, claim about 1,800 employees company-wide are being pink-slipped. Oracle claims the company isn't closing the Santa Clara facility with this reduction in force. Instead, "Oracle is refocusing its Hardware Systems business, and for that reason, has decided to lay off certain of its employees in the Hardware Systems Division."
Oracle is less and less a software company and becoming more about making sales, then gouging their clients.
That has been true for 30 years. I remember making an inquiry in the early 1990s, and instead of giving me technical specs, they started badgering me for the name of the "decision maker". When I finally relented and gave them the name of my (non-technical) boss, they ignored me, and started calling him using pushy tactics that would make a door-to-door vacuum cleaner salesman proud.
I admin AIX and Linux, I hardly ever use SMIT. Everything done through SMIT can be done using the command line, although the syntax is often obscure, but it's also all logged, so you can easily just script the operation in the future. AIX 7.2 now has live kernel updates, which is going to push uptimes even longer, especially combined with live partition mobility. Only hard failures I've had of AIX systems were when both my primary AND secondary storage arrays panicked (gotta love when management goes cheap and bleeding edge). Even then, I was able to recover the vast majority of my partitions without having to rebuild them.