It's horrible how large companies always try to frame whistle-blowers as 'disgruntled employees' and use the media to publicly shame them and make them unemployable.<p>An employee who was fired (for whatever reason) is always going to be much more likely to blow the whistle than a happy employee who is still receiving pay cheques from their employer.<p>Just because someone was fired doesn't mean that there is no substance behind their claims. Also, 'poor performance' is highly subjective... Maybe Oracle was looking a very specific kind of 'performance' which was outside of the legal/ethical boundaries of that employee.<p>Regarding the Oracle cloud sales not doing well, this isn't surprising. I am more surprised by the fact that Oracle shares are still performing well on the stock market. I can't think of a single Oracle product that the software engineers of today are actually excited about. The terms that come to mind when I think about Oracle are 'legacy', 'lock-in', 'expensive' and 'inflexible'.
Slightly relevant - about Oracle and its single-minded pursuit of money over all else:
<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-zRN7XLCRhc&t=33m" rel="nofollow">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-zRN7XLCRhc&t=33m</a>
Can anyone with a finance/CFO background give a primer in how a) to detect such aggressive accounting in a cloud company's earnings statements and/or b) what aggressive means in this context?<p>It would be nice to have a field guide to how to spot those without bathing suits when the tide goes out.
Ahh, another example of "Creative Accounting" as I like to call it. Sort of like "Creative Writing," but instead of writing up a fictional story, it's about moving numbers and creating plotlines that aren't true but look pretty good on paper. My how I loathe it.<p>On the flip side, I would like to think one of the most talented gentlemen in such a dog-shit-ethics-gutter, Mr. Andy Fastow[1][2], would be an excellent comentator on this subject.<p>[1] <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrew_Fastow" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrew_Fastow</a><p>[2] <a href="http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2012-03-22/enrons-andrew-fastow-the-mistakes-i-made" rel="nofollow">http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2012-03-22/enrons-and...</a>