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."

Comments

Re:No mention of Apple?

[Nerdfest]

Seems to me this is a bunch of people standing up for what they believe in even though it may cost them financially. It would be nice to see a few Apple employees do the same.

No surprise

[m509272]

Larry Ellison was only recently eclipsed by Steve Jobs as the bigger d'bag. No surprise here. I wish at some point it would bite these d'bags in the a**, Unfortunately that never seems to happen.

Does anybody still use Java?

[flyingfsck]

I thought Java died years ago already, since it was pummelled by just about every other interpreter - Perl, PHP, Python, Ruby, Java Script, VB... those are all better in some respect and far more popular.

GPL

[iamacat]

Sun had the foresight to make their major products, including Java, available under open source community's preferred license. So get off your butts already and start coding. Its freedom of information, not freedom to be lazy bums who want to leech free stuff from Oracle.