Sun Deal Complete, Oracle Says 'We're Hiring' (Datamation)

Posted Jan 31, 2010 2:11 UTC (Sun) by JoeF (guest, #4486)
In reply to: Sun Deal Complete, Oracle Says 'We're Hiring' (Datamation) by nikanth
Parent article: Sun Deal Complete, Oracle Says 'We're Hiring' (Datamation)

Because the people they are firing may not have the qualifications needed for the new positions.
Firing and hiring isn't a null-sum game. You can't put a hardware engineer on a software development position, for example.

Sun Deal Complete, Oracle Says 'We're Hiring' (Datamation)

Posted Jan 31, 2010 7:45 UTC (Sun) by xbobx (subscriber, #51363) [Link] (1 responses)

In addition, after merging two companies you'll probably have lots of duplication. You may not need two Vice Presidents of Human Resources (for example). So it seems natural to shed a bit of the excess fat in some places and hire in others where think your new company needs to invest.

Sun Deal Complete, Oracle Says 'We're Hiring' (Datamation)

Posted Feb 1, 2010 21:03 UTC (Mon) by rahvin (guest, #16953) [Link]

Most of the people being fired are going to be the kind of people easily replaced. Human Resources, Sales and other non-tech positions. In any merger the first people out the door are the ones easily replaced and the company doing the purchasing already has. As a rule technical positions are almost always excluded unless it's a merger of equals in the same field.