Sources: major layoffs at Oracle, more on way
Oracle made major cuts in its global workforce on Friday and more are expected to come, say multiple sources and news reports.
Oracle made major cuts in its global workforce on Friday and more are expected to come, say multiple sources and news reports.
Oracle has upgraded the WebLogic application server that it gained in its BEA Systems acquisition, adding integration with Oracle's Fusion middleware platform.
Oracle has presented a comprehensive roadmap for its recently acquired BEA Systems middleware technologies. Among its proposed moves are making BEA's application server Oracle's strategic Java container and pledging continued support for BEA customers.
Oracle's seemingly endless buying spree may have alienated some customers, but two Australina firms, Hawker de Havilland and Australian Vintage, envisage an Oracle-owned BEA as beneficial in terms of vendor management and product support.
Market share and technology, a sometimes unbeatable combination, is the raison d'etre behind Oracle's acquisition of BEA, say several industry analysts. What Oracle wanted was access to the high-quality, large installed customer base that BEA owned. The high-end customers who use middleware for the most demanding applications are owned by either BEA or IBM, so this acquisition inches Oracle closer to IBM's scale, says Yefim Natis, a Gartner vice president. If the acquisition is approved by the US Securities and Exchange Commission, it will still put Oracle in second place behind IBM as the leading application infrastructure vendor.