[snaky]

Why don't we just use the Hanlon's razor?

> Oracle's overall revenue was down, largely because of its shrinking "on premises" software sales

> So how did Oracle increase profit on revenue that shrank overall by about 1 percent? The company slashed the operating cost of performing software updates, license support, developing and supporting new hardware, and services—in other words, through layoffs

http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2016/06/oracle...

So top management is in "cut all the corners, don't care about the future, we need our bonuses now" mode, that's it.