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Oracle Top Execs Answer Sun Employee Questions

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on from the duck-and-cover dept.

The Register writes "Sun invited Oracle president Charles Phillips and chief corporate architect Edward Screven to an employee-only town hall this Wednesday, where they took questions on what's coming. They said they'd be 'crazy' to close Java, that Oracle 'needs' MySQL, and all Sun's processors look appealing. They hedged on OpenOffice — Phillips said he couldn't comment on any product line — and on Sun's work in high-performance computing. Screven made it pretty clear the Sun vision of cloud computing does not fit with Oracle's; Oracle sees itself as a provider of infrastructure like virtualization to make clouds, not a provider of hosted services. As for who's staying and who's getting cut at Sun: Phillips said Oracle needs Sun, but warned 'tough decisions' will be coming. Don't forget, this is the company that couriered pink slips to the PeopleSoft staff it cut following that acquisition."

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  1. Re:Yeah Like this will EVER happen. by cyphercell · · Score: 1, Troll

    Okay, I'll agree that excessive breeding is bad, but I don't see how it's fair to punish someone for having one or two (one for each partner) kids. In a way they are providing society with citizens to work as they retire. There is some leeway for having a child at different age groups. Better incentives for waiting until thirty, might cover quite a bit of losses with regards to someone who has a child at 16 and lives to 99. The comparison is having a child at 30 and living to 99, the child being better equipped to contribute to society could cover more than just the 14 working years you'd expect. This also, generally adds to the quality of life.

    Most things that shorten life expectancy also devalue quality of life. I'd go against it.

    On the other hand I'm not 100% sure I could advocate placing extra taxes on a 16 year old that is having a child. In this respect I suppose I would just provide a bonus for hitting the optimum age range - say 25-35. Everyone else is either too young or too old.

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    Under the influence of Post-Cyberpunk Gonzo Journalism
  2. Re:How It Went Down by OutOnARock · · Score: 1, Troll


    I find it interesting that the Oracle employee DID NOT refute the line:

    Have you ever tried to install Oracle?

    So you must concur that its fucking hell to install?