* Posts by Nadeem Batt

3 publicly visible posts • joined 25 Mar 2008

Oracle will cut half of Sun workers, analyst predicts

Nadeem Batt
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Totally Agree !

One of the key things that Sun has failed to do in my opinion, is to drop the right people when it has had to do a workforce reduction, and make an effort to keep the right people from leaving and doing a proper and useful re-organisation of what is left after the excercise.

Often the people who should have been dropped are the very people making the decisions. Oracle should wait to see what they have got, take/mix the right people into their organisation and then drop what is left. Not the other way around, ie let the middle management drop/keep who they want and then merge what is left !!

Nadeem Batt

What really matters !

The percentage is not really as important as "which" people are kept on and which are dropped. As for the percentages then I really do think that both Sun and Oracle management should take it easy and think hard about the people/groups they select. Can always drop them later but very hard to bring back !

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Nadeem Batt

Never Understood...

...why migrating to the new system wasn't made compulsory. A phased migration should have completed by now and any issues would have been resolved. So much money spent on the two systems (even though the first was good too) and still the old ones are run at great cost as well as the new one.

Local and "personal" agendas and politics have been allowed to dictate too much in this case ! This is truly what has happened. Tax payers money !!

People often don't like to change, just for the hell of it. If this was going to be the case, ie local authorities were not going to be migrated and they didn't show enthusiasm to migrate then who decided to go ahead with it in spite of this ? TWICE ! I say this because there was nothing so wrong with the first system to warrant its scrapping !

After the first EDS system ran for a while the lack of interest was clear. That should have been addressed before all that time and money was spent once again !