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Oracle cuts jobs in ‘refocusing’ of hardware systems business

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23 January 2017

Less than a year after it revealed plans to cut up to 300 members of its North American sales team, Oracle is once again slimming down its workforce, this time from its hardware systems business.

Oracle has reportedly laid off around 450 workers in Santa Clara, California, from its hardware systems division, including hardware and software developers, managers, technicians and administrative assistants.

“The Santa Clara facility is not closing as part of this reduction in force,” the company said in a statement. “Rather, 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.”

However, if sources cited by ZDNet are to be believed, the technology company’s total layoff figure could be closer to 1,800. While the company has not confirmed such numbers, it is clear that it is working to slim down its workforce in certain areas.

The reported layoffs reflect the company’s new direction in cloud, which is Oracle’s big bet for improving revenue since its new software licensing revenue dropped by 20 per cent in its last quarter ended 15 December.

Likewise, the company’s hardware revenue reportedly fell 13% year-on-year during second 2017 fiscal quarter.

In the company’s most recent SPARC/Solaris roadmap, a proposed new version, Solaris 12, was replaced by Solaris 11.next and SPARC next.

Oracle’s acquired Solaris and SPARC in 2009 when the company bought Sun Microsystems and has not had great success with the two offerings since.

Oracle announced on 19 January that it had signed an agreement to acquire Apiary, whose APIFlow solution provides the framework and tools for developing application programming interfaces that share enterprise services and data and help create cloud-based applications.

“Together, Oracle and Apiary will help companies thrive in the digital economy by comprehensively managing connectivity complexity and API proliferation,” the company said in a statement.

The latest round of reported job cuts comes after the US Dept of Labor filed a lawsuit against Oracle, alleging the company engaged in pay discrimination practices against female, African-American, and Asian employees.

Oracle responded to the charges saying that the complaint is, “politically motivated, based on false allegations, and wholly without merit”.

IDG News Service

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