Ellison On Oracle-PeopleSoft Layoffs: "We're Sorry"
Speaking to CNBC in a TV interview, Larry Ellison has said: 'We never like to be in the position where we have more employees than jobs - but that's just one of the things that happen when you glue two big companies together.' He added: 'We're sorry.'
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Gerald Cheves commented on the 24 Jan 2005
Doesn't a downsizing always occur when two companies merge because of shared resources and elimination of duplicate administrative processes? I don't think the layoffs came as a surprise to Ellison. In fact, he probably could have given an advanced warning to the effected departments.
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1234 commented on the 24 Jan 2005
SAP Netweaver is a product suite aimed at creating a single platform for hosting all SAP and non-SAP Products. It is not a Database Server meant to take on Oracle.
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T577 commented on the 23 Jan 2005
"Sorry"!? It's going to take a bit more than sorry...
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Oracle vs SAP commented on the 22 Jan 2005
SAP has already said it would offer special deals to TomorrowNow's customers to migrate to SAP's NetWeaver software, so the batle is going to get tough
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