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Oracle Needs a Clue As Brain Drain Accelerates

Posted by Soulskill on from the trimming-the-muscle dept.

The Contrarian writes "It looks like Oracle is not suiting former Sun staff well, nor community members in the Java and OpenOffice.org communities. This weekend saw an unusually large number of rather public departures, with (among many others listed in the article) the VP running Solaris development quitting, the token academic on the JCP walking out and top community leaders at OpenOffice.org nailing their resignations to the door after having the ex-Sun people slam it in their face. The best analysis comes from an unexpected place, with the marketing director of Eclipse — usually loyal defenders of their top-dollar-paying members — turning on Oracle and telling them to get a clue."

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  1. No mention of Apple? by c_forq · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Of course everyone panned the evil, controlling Steve Jobs for dropping Java from OS-X. But everyone else dropping away should be celebrated. No double standard here.

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  2. Re:Most of the people leaving don't need it by hedwards · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Won't happen. Google hasn't got a case, they used what is now Oracle's trademark to refer to something that isn't the Java language as the Java language. The best Google can do is settle it out of court.

  3. Re:So obvious question... by Mongoose+Disciple · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    As someone who primarily makes his living writing both Java and .NET code for enterprise applications and knows better, let me be the first to say, excellent trolling, sir.