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Oracle Lays Off More Than 1,000 Employees (zdnet.com)

Posted by msmash on from the restructuring dept.

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."

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  1. Good bye to Solaris by jfdavis668 · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Looks like this is the end of Sun SPARC and Solaris.

  2. If Only... by Oswald+McWeany · · Score: 5, Funny

    If only someone at the Oracle could have foretold this.

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    1. Re:If Only... by jfdavis668 · · Score: 4, Funny

      They should have bought Borland, too. Oracle Delphi could have predicted this.

  3. It's oracle, so... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    I feel for the 500 lawyers, 200 managers, 50 directors, 149 assistant and one temp programmer needing to find a new job...

  4. Thanks by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Funny

    Thanks, Trump!

  5. Re:Surprised? by ShanghaiBill · · Score: 4, Informative

    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.

  6. Oracle, what a joke. by Jack9 · · Score: 4, Interesting

    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.

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