A spokesperson for Oracle said no further information was being disclosed at this time.
Earlier this month Oracle confirmed it was reducing its workforce by one to two percent globally.
A statement issued by the company at the time stated, "Oracle is realigning certain areas to be more efficient and groups affected include North America Consulting, Sales and Government, Education and Healthcare (formerly Oracle Service Industries)."
The job cuts follow on the heels of a decrease in the Oracle workforce, last November/December.
At that time, Oracle senior VP and chief marketing officer, Mark Jarvis, had denied any job cuts, stating that the losses were a result of natural attrition.
"We haven't fired people. Most of the people that have left in the past two years have left because they are bureaucratic people who did not want to go through the changes that Oracle did," said Jarvis in a press conference at Oracle's OpenWorld Conference in December, 2001.
When questioned at the time about future reduction of the Oracle workforce, Jarvis carefully replied that there "would definitely be role-changing", but denied allegations of planned layoffs.
He instead referred to a shift in focus for Oracle, arising from a plan to conduct more marketing and sales-related initiatives using the Internet, rather than staff.
"If you look at where we would like to be...in five years time...we will optimise our business. Sales [team] in theory will get smaller and smaller, development will get bigger and bigger, marketing will get smaller and smaller because on the Internet you can do more with less," said Jarvis.
According to Gary Roberts, senior VP Global Information Technologies, reductions in the Oracle work-force have been planned for at least two years. During an interview at the OpenWorld 2001 event, Roberts admitted to warning members of the IT department that they had a limited working life in the desktop team at Oracle.
"We started the [re-training] program over two years ago. I actually met with the desktop people and basically said to them look, this is reality: in two years time or three years time, I won't need 500 desktop people. If I need 50, I'll be surprised.
So you have an opportunity to look at the landscape and decide what you want to do. If you want to stay at Oracle, you might just go off and do other things," said Roberts.
