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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."
This sounds really, really bad for Java's future on OSX now that Apple's deprecated it and it's Oracle that's now supposed to do the porting.
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Read this weekend perspective on the whole Apple dropping Java thing.
On the other hand, despite all the difficulties, with Oracle's vast resources at its disposal, it would be ridiculous if they couldn't do a new OSX port. Maybe Steve Jobs wants the opportunity to call Oracle "lazy" too
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I hope they pay the price for their ignorance and hubris. What did they get for buying Sun, exactly?
They got hardware which is what they've wanted for a long time. Sun has a wide range of great hardware and a very solid OS. The evolution of Oracle DB requires intimate control of the system at the hardware level. The database server will be able to directly control resource allocation.
I don't think they were interested in the rest of the company. It's probably just in the way.
It appears they are focusing on their area of expertise.
Did you read TFA? It is no just about developers and communities, it's about analysts as well. If Forrester and Redmonk are issuing research notes saying drop Java then management wont be singing Oracles tune for long either.
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Oracle makes 90% of its profits from support contracts renewals. Customers renew to get continued support for whatever Oracle sold them, and to get access to the newer versions. We'd have to ask them to get actual numbers, but say x% renew because they want support/upgrades for Oracle DB, y% renew because they want support/upgrades for some enterprise app, surely z% renew because they want support/upgrades for JVM/Netbeans/some other Java bollocks.
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