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Chris Remington ( remington@beehaw.org ) MA to Technology · 15 days ago

Oracle fired up to 30,000 workers via email after a 95% profit surge. Tech companies are cutting almost 1,000 jobs/day

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Oracle fired up to 30,000 workers via email after a 95% profit surge. Tech companies are cutting almost 1,000 jobs/day

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Chris Remington ( remington@beehaw.org ) MA to Technology · 15 days ago
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It’s unclear exactly how many employees lost their jobs, with reports ranging from 10,000 to 30,000. The latter would represent almost 19% of the company’s 162,000 workers.
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  • Midnitte ( Midnitte@beehaw.org ) 
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    Literally just siphoning wealth from society.

    • recentSlinky ( recentSlinky@lemmy.ca ) 
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      Just like cancer. And when it comes to cancer there only two options. Let the cancer kill the body, or we “cure” it first.

      • P03 Locke ( p03locke@lemmy.dbzer0.com ) 
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        I prefer radiation therapy.

      • W98BSoD ( W98BSoD@lemmy.dbzer0.com ) 
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  • BestBouclettes ( BestBouclettes@jlai.lu ) 
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    If Oracle and Microsoft crash and burn when the bubble pops, it would be absolutely amazing

    • P03 Locke ( p03locke@lemmy.dbzer0.com ) 
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      Microsoft won’t, but Oracle… I’m having trouble figuring out what Oracle sells nowadays that is worth paying money for. Are there really that many companies still hooked on Oracle’s DB?

      • bl4kers ( bl4kers@beehaw.org ) 
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        Oracle owns Cerner, the largest IT medical provider. No major competitor either, since they’re multinational and most competitors are single country or regional

        • Cass.Forest ( cityboundforest@beehaw.org ) 
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          Correct me if I’m wrong but don’t they also own TikTok in the US now?

      • Midnitte ( Midnitte@beehaw.org ) 
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        Microsoft uses Oracle, to give you a sense of scale.

        • redsand ( redsand@infosec.pub ) 
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          I read this as Microslop can’t operate postgres

          • TerabyteRex ( TerabyteRex@piefed.social ) 
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            Ms does use postgres. In fact in was a dev on the postgres team at microsoft that found the russian malware in XZ that almost got included in red hat lts and compromised the entire internet

            • punksnotdead ( punksnotdead@slrpnk.net ) 
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              There’s no conclusive evidence it was Russian. It could just as likely be American, Chinese, Israeli, French, etc

              https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XZ_Utils_backdoor

            • redsand ( redsand@infosec.pub ) 
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              I would be even more shocked to learn that person still works there. Crazy world time to check LinkedIn

          • msage ( msage@programming.dev ) 
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            M$ actually bought Citus Data, so they are embracing Pgsql.

        • Hirom ( Hirom@beehaw.org ) 
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          Oracle needs a good dose of adversarial interoperability.

      • MagnificentSteiner ( MagnificentSteiner@lemmy.zip ) 
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        There are a lot of big companies using Hyperion Financial Management, Hyperion Planning and other EPM stuff.

        • P03 Locke ( p03locke@lemmy.dbzer0.com ) 
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          I can’t help but think of the Borderlands corpos, now.

      • W98BSoD ( W98BSoD@lemmy.dbzer0.com ) 
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        One Rich Asshole Called Larry Ellison

      • BarneyPiccolo ( BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today ) 
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        The Ellisons don’t care, they’re in the media business now. They now control a sizeable portion of the news media, and as well as entertainment. It will bring in even more money, and also make them among the most influential people on the planet.

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      They’ll be expecting government handouts to not go bankrupt and that’s why they’re spending as much as they can. They’ll get that money back anyway.

      • Vex_Detrause ( Vex_Detrause@lemmy.ca ) 
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        This will be the easiest government to get handouts from.

  • Catoblepas ( Catoblepas@piefed.blahaj.zone ) 
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    They must be cumming buckets once they realized journalists are gormless enough to blindly regurgitate their press releases about how these are AI driven job losses and totally not layoffs due to typical business fuckery.

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      The job losses are AI-driven, though. The upper management fucked around with pouring billions into AI and found out, and the people who had nothing to do with that decision get to pay for it.

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        This has been in motion since before AI was being pushed in everything.

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    Can you imagine if tech workers decided they might want to unionize? That would be an exciting day.

    • BarneyPiccolo ( BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today ) 
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      They should, although it’s a bit late. Should have done it long before everyone got fired.

  • ideonek ( ideonek@piefed.social ) 
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    It won’t save them.

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    Wouldn’t/shouldn’t investors see huge layoffs like this as a sign that the company isn’t doing too hot? In a logical world the stock price should be plummeting right now… Oh they’re down 25 % so far this year, so maybe it is.

  • st3ph3n ( st3ph3n@midwest.social ) 
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    Silicon Valley is rotten to its core.

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    This is a sign they know they’re near the end. They’re looting everything they can before the company crashes.

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    my dude has a very punchable face if i’ve ever seen one.

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      All that plastic. Picture it sounding like an old-time squeezy car horn.

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