Kansas City Tech Community Fears More Layoffs After Oracle HQ Move

Our post title captures the reality of the situation . . .

KANSAS CITY STAYS LOSING JOBS TO CITIES WITH BETTER BIZ CLIMATE!!!

This isn't just blogging fodder and keyboard warrior conversation . . . Now local tech leaders are speaking up as the aftermath of the Cerner buyout sparks more fears about the state of the local economy.

For the sake of education, news and the public interest . . . We've liberated this quick but very INFORMED quote from behind a local paywall . . .

Although details of the headquarters move are not clear, one thing is: Ellison’s remarks Tuesday indicate that the company’s Kansas City presence and employee base will not expand tremendously, as it once had, in the coming years. Instead, Nashville most likely will benefit from that growth.

“We worked incredibly hard over the last 45 years to build something special, as Cerner leaders and Cerner associates,” said Flanigan, CEO of Digital Health KC. “I was very disappointed because I think part of what made Cerner and the work we did special was the fact that we were in Kansas City, and we had a real desire to change health care.”

Read more via www.TonysKansasCity.com (paywall) link . . .

Oracle's HQ move to Nashville makes real what former Cerner execs feared - Kansas City Business Journal

A former Cerner exec, hearing news of Oracle focusing on Nashville, laments that he wishes the company "had given Kansas City a chance."