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Oracle Needs a Clue As Brain Drain Accelerates
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."
Clearly, Ellison does not think of Oracle as an open, collaborative enterprise like a university, but rather as an empire...
Empires rise and fall.
If people don't like it, tough. They'll usually end up paying him to use his stuff anyway.
We didn't. I'm was just promoted to COO of Hewlett-Packard's acquisitions wing because I spearheaded a migration to MySQL from the Oracle Enterprise Suite. I saved my company billions of dollars promoting temporal and technological efficiency. It really wasn't much of a hassle because people who know MySQL well are like Mexicans hanging around Home Depots - there's no shortage of 'em.
The shrewd move was so successful that I was awarded the position of my old boss, the old COO. His secretary is now blowing me on a daily basis while he's stuck begging for pussy from the HR and mail ladies.
Plus, I called Larry Ellison personally and told him to go fuck himself. Top of the world, baby, and nobody will ever take that away from me.
Gosh I bet Larry was mortified.
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As long as they don't use retarded abbreviations, they can hire mnkz for all I care.
Confucius say, "Find worm in apple - bad. Find half a worm - worse."
If they keep going back then I have no sympathy for them.
Confucius say, "Find worm in apple - bad. Find half a worm - worse."
As someone who primarily makes his living writing real-time transaction processing software, and wouldn't touch .NET with a hundred-foot pole, let me be the first to say, excellent shilling, sir.
COBOL isn't dead, unfortunately, but the sort of people who use it usually don't fit well on /.. COBOL programming is perhaps one step up from accounting.
Fuck you.
Signed, An Acocuntant
To have a right to do a thing is not at all the same as to be right in doing it
He apparently hates Linux as well. Is there anything he doesn't hate? Oh right, he doesn't hate Larry.
Have you got your LWN subscription yet?