I know the feeling... :-( I never worked for Sun but I always had them in high esteem for all the incredible work they did, initiatives, research, ... Seeing them being "erased" as quickly as possible is not exactly helping.
There's much blahblah about Sun being sick, bankrupt, bad, mismanaged and other superlatives. But how did they manage to bring Java to this level then ? How come they were so much appreciated by us then ? By being money-wasting incompetents ? :-) Personally (*my* opinion) I very much doubt there is much interest at oracle to keep any of Sun's spirit alive. And not because it's oracle, but because it's oracle's kind of enterprise. If it's not generating money in the short term, it not worth to keep it alive. As so many of our managers/leaders/... are thinking today. They want the cashhhhh - *everything & now* ! And I sincerely doubt there will be much Java-heroes or any high Java-profiles at oracle either. It's not the organisation that will tolerate it very long. They're not exactly keen about free spirits or people who might make shadow to the sole allowed hero. And *that's* proper to oracle. At least it was when I was there... And now it's me who's going for chocolate. At least, there's no chocolate-shortage in this country. ;-) On Tue, Jun 15, 2010 at 18:01, Carl Jokl <carl.j...@gmail.com> wrote: > One thing that I will say is that for all that I was never ignorant of > it's many faults I miss Sun Microsystems very much. I even hoped I > might have a shot at working for them one day. Every time I see the > Sun logo anywhere it makes me feel sad inside. > > I didn't know if my enthusiasm for Sun could make the migration to > Oracle. Now it seems pretty clear that this is not going to happen. If > anything I am developing a more proactive dislike of Oracle. > > Jonathan Schwarz once said "You cannot build communities with money > you have to build them with intent". I think I only really appreciated > how true that was until the Oracle acquisition. All of Oracles money > cannot buy my loyalty. Sun managed to earn it from me but now that > loyalty seems to have died with Sun. > > I suppose that my loyalty not being for sale follows also for > Microsoft or IBM or even Apple for that matter (He says ironically > typing away on his Mac Book Pro). > > Maybe it didn't help that Oracle abandoned Project Wonderland and my > current role is a Researcher for the University of Bradford > researching the used of Project Wonderland as an educational platform > for Higher Education. > > I suppose that no matter how many people say bad things about Sun and > their technology is not going to stop me wish they were still in > existence or wishing they could be resurrected. > > I should probably stop talking about this because it is just making me > feel said. I am off to find some Chocolate. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "The Java Posse" group. > To post to this group, send email to javapo...@googlegroups.com. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > javaposse+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com<javaposse%2bunsubscr...@googlegroups.com> > . > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/javaposse?hl=en. > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "The Java Posse" group. To post to this group, send email to javapo...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to javaposse+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/javaposse?hl=en.
