Looks like Friday is it for Sparc MicroElectronics." Oracle declined to comment. That's not surprising: Big Red has in the past been... how do we say this... difficult to pin down in regards to its staff reductions. The layoffs are hardly a shock, given the performance of Oracle's hardware unit as of late. In the last financial year, Oracle reported hardware revenues of $4.15bn. By comparison, in 2016 the unit logged hardware revenues of $4.67bn. In 2015 it was $5.2bn, and 2014 saw $5.37bn.