UPDATE: With BEA comes Layoffs for Fusion Middleware
It's not *really* a surprise that O is looking to trim costs and overlap - and not just from the BEA side of our new house. Still it sucks waiting around for the faceless ubermenschen to make their decisions.
I've got absolutely no inside info on what - if anything - is coming and who it's coming for. I'm just looking at the public news sources and blogging what most of us are thinking about. This could all be a tempest in a teacup. I hope that's the case.
From THIS article from the AP comes this confidence-boosting gem:
"Oracle has acknowledged job cuts are likely as it strives to maximize its profit from the BEA deal but hasn't specified how many workers will be jettisoned.
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There is really a lot of cool stuff going on here. Whether it's ECM going invisible underneath the AppStack or exploring semantic capabilities of the treasure trove of unstructured data encapsulated in CM systems, Oracle has a lot of really smart people in the FMW group doing truly innovative work. It would be a shame to see that go.
UPDATE: THIS Article has names and numbers.
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Trip Chowdhry of Global Equities Research said his sources tell him Oracle might let go 1,000 to 1,500 of its middleware staff and another 500 at BEA, principally in adjunct roles such as sales....
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