13 Zero Salary review countries

As the Compensation Workbench application is going online, you may be interested to read through the manager training guidelines that 13 countries are banned from the application and not available within the HR database.

This non confidential document states "Zero Budget Countries: Brazil, Japan, Austria, Belgium, Denmark, Estonia, France, Germany, Italy, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Netherlands, and Switzerland. These employees are not populated in the module."

A Clear signal from the Corporation for countries considered with too many employees ?
But will the employees staying be the most talented ones ?

Read More : FY10 Eligibility Guidelines, Oracle Compensation Philosophy, HR VP interview 2004 (Old Memories),

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Oracle sued for alleged fraud against US gov

Well, we had lots of concerns regarding the compliance and ethics code.
Seems we have our confirmation about the serious doubts of having real ethics or just just marketing sheets.

The complaint against Oracle was originally filed by an Oracle employee, who alleged that large discounts offered to other customers were hidden from government agencies.

Has there been any whisleblowing process ?
The inquiry will undoubtly give some informations.
Let's remind that a previous case was settled in 2006 over a 98 Millions USD deal, where the external whisleblower got 17 Millions USD through the false claim act...

And would'nt you want more clarity regarding haven islands Oracle operations ?
Wouldn't a false claim act be of interest - Contact Us.

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Fusion Storm Rising...

SEC has been advised that Oracle Corp approved, committed and initiated and amendment to the Sun integration plan, with 675 to 825 M$ .

"Amendment further reduces the size of Oracle’s combined workforce primarily in Europe and Asia, eliminates redundant costs resulting from the acquisition of Sun and reflects improved efficiencies in operations."

This annoucement is a serious issue as there has been no local nor Europeen Work's Council consultation.

Read more: Oracle cutting deeper at Sun Microsystems - Silicon Valley / San Jose Business Journal

Let's sacrifice some revenue...

.. for more margin.

I strongly recommand this informationweek article, dedicated to IBM, which so much explains our multinational companies behaviours.
Regarding Oracle, we could extrapolate towards :
- Kill/Purchase competitors... for less competition
- Kill consulting for less revenue reckon problems
- Continue Western countries employees layoff until significant hit on margin.

SAP to open a new front...

The announcement of Sybase beeing bought by SAP is an important move, opening the competition play in both the Apps and the Database market.
The purchase of Sybase is the fifth-largest software takeover ever, according to Bloomberg data

Read more : Business Week

Sun France Sales On Strike

This is yet quite an unusual event in our companies, but the Change In Control process really triggered anger from sales force. The sudden change in engagement procedures, sales conditions, especially the support sales ones, severly jammed the "happy merge momentum".

Oracle/Sun Management is asked to provide urgent answers to have the sales force back on line, fully engaged to fullfill their objectives without restraints.