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."

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Re:Larry does it His Way

[Anonymous Coward]

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.

Re:Larry does it His Way

[MichaelSmith]

Gosh I bet Larry was mortified.