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.
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.
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?
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
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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
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.
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.
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