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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."
Looks like this is the end of Sun SPARC and Solaris.
If only someone at the Oracle could have foretold this.
"That's the way to do it" - Punch
I feel for the 500 lawyers, 200 managers, 50 directors, 149 assistant and one temp programmer needing to find a new job...
Thanks, Trump!
The NEW Oracle Advanced Hardware Systems Division, India opens ;)
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.
Foxconn, the world's largest contract electronics maker, is considering setting up a display-making plant in the United States in an investment that would exceed $7 billion, company chairman and chief executive Terry Gou said on Sunday.
The plans come after U.S. President Donald Trump pledged to put "America First" in his inauguration speech on Friday, prompting Gou to warn about the rise of protectionism and a trend for politics to underpin economic development.
You really have to admit that 30-50k new jobs is significant.
Gou said he told Son that the United States has no panel-making industry but it is the second-largest market for televisions. An investment for a display plant would exceed $7 billion and could create about 30,000-50,000 jobs, Gou told Son.
You can hate on him all you want, but if fear of Trump can bring manufacturing jobs back, the people whose livelihood depended on manufacturing jobs and who voted for him are going to be happy they did. As for the rest, you should all wish for more success stories, despite your personal opinions. It's not like any other president hasn't been an asshole. Why? "It's the economy, stupid!"
"Transparent" is a shit show that trades on every stereotype going. A man in drag is NOT a transsexual.
A Fedora installation used to feel different from, say, a Debian installation. These days the biggest difference is whether you type "apt-get" or "yum" to manage packages.
That was sooo last year. This year, Fedora uses "dnf" instead of yum. It only has a subset of the functionality that yum provided, but it's new!!!1! and what's missing will the there Real Soon Now.
I think the name dnf is an apt name...
They better watch it - Foxconn is thinking of opening a $7 Billion display screen factory in the USA, on top of $50 Billion, and you know darned well that fear of Trump putting duties on them is part of it.
Nope. I don't know or believe that for a second. See, I'm not dumb. I can actually read that Foxconn had plans before Trump even threw his hat into the ring.
More importantly, I dislike governance by fear, and what I also know is that if ANYBODY on the left-wing side said anything like what Trump purports to do, the Republicans would shake in their boots at the vileness of government interfering with the free market, and most importantly, I know that the suffering factory workers in Asia, whose plight I also care about, will not be in Trump's thoughts. So not only will he be ignoring real problems, the political allies in the legislature won't be genuinely interested in doing the thing, at most, they'll appear to do it.
More likely, they'll get fed up with him, and toss him on his ass as soon as he gives them an opening.
You really have to admit that 30-50k new jobs is significant.
In a country of over 300 million? Nope. In a country with a workforce of 160 million or so. Nope. Heck, I still remember the right-wing shills complaining about people leaving the workforce and not even looking for jobs, thanks to Obama. Now you want me to praise Trump for a pittance?
Says more about you than the economy.
You can hate on him all you want, but if fear of Trump can bring manufacturing jobs back, the people whose livelihood depended on manufacturing jobs and who voted for him are going to be happy they did. As for the rest, you should all wish for more success stories, despite your personal opinions. It's not like any other president hasn't been an asshole. Why? "It's the economy, stupid!"
Ah, here's the thing, Trump won't bring them back, but he will absolutely insist he is, so the naive will be thinking the world is changing for the better, and all too easily believe that it's the GREAT TRUMP who is saving them, even as the Emperor's lack of clothes becomes apparent.
I agree there will be lots of "success stories" but that's the problem. See, it won't be true stories. It'll be works of fiction. And the kind of asshole that Trump is, is one that is very dangerous, though perhaps you might not be aware of it. He's the conniving deceitful sort that gets a roaring crowd behind him as he convinces Democracy to sign its death warrant.
He's very dangerous.
It's a known quantity. Oracle rep lie sell their substandard product with shitty support, piecemeal features, and a huge bill. You deserve what you get. Almost as bad as contracting with IBM, but not quite. IBM has decent support.
Often wrong but never in doubt.
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There are over a million skilled manufacturing jobs unfilled right now. There's plenty to manufacture, but skilled workers willing to do blue-collar work are hard to find. Sure, we'll never return to the old days, "but the good old days weren't always good, and tomorrow ain't as bad as it seems".
Socialism: a lie told by totalitarians and believed by fools.
This one combined with Microsoft's layoffs has already cancelled out the few hundred jobs Trump was so proud of keeping in the US a few weeks. Maybe the Oracle employees can get a job at Carrier.
Trump is actually very left-leaning on gays and lesbians, transsexuals, and abortion. What he says now and what he's done in the past are contradictory. I'd say actions speak louder than words. Like all politicians, he says whatever he has to to get elected. It's also why he's labeled a RINO - Republican In Name Only.
"Transparent" is a shit show that trades on every stereotype going. A man in drag is NOT a transsexual.
Never mind that many employees were training themselves, getting certified and leaving for better paying jobs at competitors anyway.
So do the math. Which is better, from the employer's perspective: Paying to train employees and watching them leave for better paying jobs at competitors, or letting the employees cover the cost of that training themselves?
Breakfast served all day!
Or Fujitsu could go w/ something like OpenBSD or FreeBSD on SPARC, and leverage off the community
Uh, the GOP is pretty much at the mercy of Trump. There are quite a few factions in the house - Ryan loyalists, the Freedom Caucus, the Cruz conservatives, the Rand Paul Libertarians... so Trump can form alliances w/ any of these groups if the Congressional leadership tries to do anything to sabotage him
He's Right wing on some things, and Left wing on others. Yeah, he supports LGBT rights, while on abortion, his current stance supports banning late term abortions, except for the usual rape, incest & life of the mother. He's also opposed to publicly funding abortions, hence the Mexico City executive order of today
His trade policy is arguably Left Wing, although I've seen plenty of Conservatives switch over to his side: the Tom Friedman arguments don't hold water w/ people when they start losing their jobs Left and Right. But on most issues - like Law & Order, Border Security, Immigration, National Security, Extreme Vetting, those policies are very much Right Wing. His policy on Russia - dunno whether it qualifies as Left Wing, since Putin was ex-KGB, or Right Wing, since Putin is Russian Nationalist. But his anti-Muslim geopolitical stance is pretty much anathema to Leftists just about everywhere.
As someone who once worked for a company led by a former Oracle Exec, this is par for the course. Larry Ellison is legendary for his "environment of fear" where they lay people off every 6 months both to keep people afraid for their jobs, and to pump up bonus money for the middle management above the people in question.
Happened at the company I worked for, and though I was ostensibly safe due to my skill set, I finally got sick of watching good people that I had worked with for over a decade that I knew were doing good work being laid off to meet a quota.
Fuck Oracle. Fuck Larry Ellison, and fuck every exec that learned that horse shit from him.
"Oh my God. This is terrible. This is the end of my Presidency. I'm fucked."; ~ Donald J. Trump