Oracle will fire some of its employees from the Sun department

Tencent Science and Technology (Yue Tong) Beijing time May 4 News, according to foreign media reports, the source said that in Friday Oracle to some of the hardware business staff sent a dismissal notice, these received the dismissal of the letter of the workers from the Sun hardware department, especially the Sun Department sales staff and some managers. So far, the specifics remain unclear, but, like the previous layoffs, the number and scale of layoffs will remain small and likely to spill over to just dozens of people. This is not a surprise. An employee who has been dismissed has revealed that traditional oracle layoffs are often done at the end of April or early May, as Oracle's fiscal year ends on May 31. The employee also claims that Oracle is streamlining basic technology workers and other support workers, mainly workers who produce products that Oracle no longer want to sell. Oracle is also cutting staff in the StorageTek sector, StorageTek was originally bought by Sun in 2005, when the deal was priced at $4.1 billion, according to sources. StorageTek mainly produces tape storage systems, which are often used by large enterprises to support their data. Last December, Larry Ellison, Oracle's chief executive, Ellison that Oracle had been steadily cutting sales and sales advisers while streamlining some useful business units. In fact, Oracle was not interested in Sun's business when it bought Sun. Oracle originally bought Sun to build high-end "engineering systems" in which software such as databases would be integrated with specially designed hardware for faster operation. In addition, in the current industry, not only Oracle a company to streamline the low interest rate of the hardware business, in fact, IBM also tried to sell its x86 server business, so as to focus more attention to those profitable engineering server business. Oracle is still refusing to comment on the Friday layoffs.