^This one has the most substance of several BizJ articles...
https://www.bizjournals.com/kansascity/ ... -cuts.html
In previous acquisitions, Oracle has trimmed workforces. Soon after buying PeopleSoft in 2005, Oracle announced plans to lay off 5,000 employees, with a majority expected to come from the PeopleSoft side, which at the time had 11,000-plus employees. However, it planned to retain more than 90% of PeopleSoft’s product development and product support teams, The New York Times reported.
Oracle also laid off 2,000 people after its Siebel Systems Inc. acquisition but said most of the cuts would be at Oracle. The layoffs included a mix of back-office roles and those working on Oracle’s E-Business Suite 11i, Computerworld reported.
With its Sun Microsystems acquisition in 2010, Oracle trimmed about 1,000 employees, but also simultaneously announced plans to hire 2,000 Sun employees to help the company grow.
Netsmart CEO Mike Valentine, a former Cerner COO, wonders how much of Cerner will stay in the Kansas City market.
“In all probabilities, they need the domain knowledge, but they have development resources around the globe, they have cloud resources, and they have product management resources,” Valentine said of Oracle.
Valentine expressed optimism, however, that Oracle will focus on growing Cerner’s workforce and helping the North Kansas City-based company gain customers globally.
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An unknown factor, Hense said, is how remote working will play a role in future hiring, making it tough to judge the potential effect on Kansas City.
If history of other acquisitions plays out, Cerner may see some initial lost jobs, some growth as biz grows but the bigger question is portion held in KC and WFA impact. Will be surprising if Cerner announces another office building for Bannister campus. KCMO and State should go big on offering data center incentives for another Oracle Cloud region at Bannister location just to plant firmer roots with ongoing Oracle investment into KC. Might be easier to hold onto local Cerner jobs and perhaps grow more in future.