Oracle slashes 30k jobs with a cold 6 a.m. email

Re:Oracle slashes 30k jobs with a cold 6 a.m. email by nocommandline on Tuesday March 31, 2026 @06:59PM (#47594598)

Oracle used to have EBS which competed primarily in SCM/Procurement (or ERP) domain.

They acquired the leaders in HCM (PeopleSoft) and CRM (Siebel) domains and combined them all (SCM, HCM, CRM) into a single (new) product called Fusion.

Their pitch also was - PeopleSoft and Siebel required people with different skill sets (PeopleCode for PeopleSoft, Siebel eScript for Siebel); but with Fusion, customization would not require any programming language knowledge and in the rare cases that it did, you just needed Java. This meant it was cheaper for enterprises. This was a big selling point for a lot of enterprises and helped them reduce their IT cost.

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Re:Oracle slashes 30k jobs with a cold 6 a.m. email by amiga386 on Wednesday April 01, 2026 @06:48AM (#47599162)

I presume what that actually means is that the Java programmer needs to learn the now-Java APIs of what PeopleCode did, and the now-Java APIs of what eScript did, and they're all probably JavaBeans...

But I suppose that does help a company get staff in the door if the job advert just says "Java programmer", they won't be immediately scared off.

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