Oracle to move 175 jobs from US to India

Sify / Walletwatch ^ | 10-12-03

[Brian S]

Sunday, 12 October , 2003, 12:38

Oracle Corporation will move 27 per cent of jobs from its Rocklin facility in California in the US to India.

Oracle will move 175 of the 650 positions at its Rocklin facility to India within the next seven months, reports said quoting sources.

The jobs that will be moved to India will be in payroll and accounting and data entry.

The company has also taken steps that would make it easier to sell real estate it owns in Rocklin, the reports said.

Oracle, based in Redwood Shores, California, is one of the world leaders in database software. The company has 41,000 employees worldwide, including more than 3,700 in India. The company has already announced plans to grow it to 4,000 by the year 2004.

Oracle chief executive Larry Ellison had said earlier, ''We have over 3,000 people in India right now.

We plan to more than double that in the fairly near term to be over 6,000 people in India. So we're going to continue to invest heavily in India.''

The company continues to grow its development centres in India which are carrying out software development, consulting and support to its global customers.

It has bought a seven-acre land in Hyderabad to build its own campus. It plans to create a 500,000 square foot, state-of-the-art campus.

Oracle presently has its India Development Centre campuses in Bangalore and Hyderabad.

The company plans to offload more of consulting work to its Indian subsidiary in the near future and hire more professionals for its shared services unit, which will provide complete range of back office services such as accounting, staff management and payroll.

It may even set up a shared services operation in India for Oracle worldwide.

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[Brian S]

There as so many of these type articles that even Willie can't keep up... ;)

[boycott]

Boycott Oracle!!!!

boycott

[TaxRelief]

Nothing new to see here, folks. Move on!

[boycott]

They want to take the jobs away from us. Let's take our business away from them.

boycott

[lelio]

We plan to more than double that in the fairly near term to be over 6,000 people in India. So we're going to continue to invest heavily in India.''

And the US government should give you a contract for any homeland defense database work because...?

[glorgau]

complete range of back office services such as accounting, staff management and payroll

So, the next people laid off from Oracle USA will get a form letter generated in India!

[dr_who_2]

Hope it's their government database group.

[Salo]

Who would you give it to? MS has done the same thing - and worse, gave the windows source code lock, stock and barrel to the ChiComs. Informix - that's IBM, they're heading to Bangalore, too. I really can't think of any of the major players in the industry that aren't headed to Apu Country.

And the US government should give you a contract for any homeland defense database work because...?

[Archangelsk]

Let's take our business away from them.

Yeah. Let's boycott business application and database software as individuals, that'll teach them a lesson.

[Salo]

Hey, Iggle, I know you care deeply about this subject. Pull up a perch....

[Capriole]

Well, it's just lovely that, thanks to all you executives who are moving your offices to India, India will soon have full employment, even if the United States doesn't. But I have a question: if only people in India have jobs, who is going going to buy your products? Americans won't have money to buy anything. This is how you create a depression, folks. And when there's a depression, we all go down with the ship, you included.

[boycott]

Let's take our business away from them.

Yeah. Let's boycott business application and database software as individuals, that'll teach them a lesson.

Yeah. Some of us individuals work in the corporate world and make decisions. I'll have less time for Oracle. Thank you.

[A CA Guy]

I've been reading more and more that this kind of outsourcing is not working out and that many firms are more likely to come back to the USA, so I find this article a bit of a surprise.

[LizardQueen]

Now it looks like their back office is joining their tech staff. When I call Oracle tech support I've only talked to 1 non-Indian in the 4 years I've been running the software.
They may be located in the US but they are all bargain-basement H1Bs.

And the people I've talked to have been nearly useless and hard to understand. I have better luck researching the issue on Usenet using Google than I do calling their support line.

I bitch to their management all the time saying "I pay for support, give me someone I can understand who actually knows what they are talking about". I'm not racist, I just want service for the money I'm paying and I ain't gettin' it.

LQ

[boycott]

Let's take our business away from them.

Yeah. Let's boycott business application and database software as individuals, that'll teach them a lesson.

*** Also, you can certainly boycott banks and credit card companies that outsource their IT jobs. All you have to do is close your account and move it to another one. Maybe even a small independent?

[Archangelsk]

Yeah. Some of us individuals work in the corporate world and make decisions.

Uh-huh. Yeah. Ya know, I never make a statement like that unless I've got the props and cred to back it up. If you can make an autonomous 500K decision on Oracle 9i then congratulations, however, the skeptic in me tells me different.

[Voltage]

Why should anyone be surprised that business will move to countries that appreciate them rather than countries that consider them just another taxpayer to rip off?