Agreed, irrelevant is probably the wrong word. The differences between companies like Oracle and Sun (including the former's lack of a technical career path) certainly is an interesting and very relevant topic. But the fact is that Oracle bought Sun, not the other way around, so you can't expect Oracle to turn into what Sun once was. Its not the contrasting between the two companies that annoyed me, it was what I perceived (perhaps wrongly, articles like this can warp what was said) as him complaining about it. The discussion he had over whether or not IBM would have been a better buyer I also thought was interesting, though as an IBM employee myself I probably shouldn't comment on it...
On Sep 27, 11:07 am, Fabrizio Giudici <fabrizio.giud...@tidalwave.it> wrote: > On 9/26/10 16:09 , Carl Jokl wrote:> The amusement park thing made sense to > me. It was illustrating the > > Oracle culture. The money had already been spent and so it wasn't a > > cost saving exercise. Making a point about "We don't do employee > > appreciation events". Oracle has a very different culture. It strikes > > me as being a whole lot less caring about its employees. > > > I am sure the point is going to be made endlessly about "But Sun went > > out of business" as though everything that was good about Sun is > > irrelevant because it went out of business (but that said I clearly > > don't believe that). > > Nobody said irrelevant. I think that when people refer to the old Sun > days - at least I do - are thinking of "not sustainable". I agree with > most of Nick's points. Generally speaking, these facts should make us to > understand that most people leaving Oracle isn't probably related to > "the future of Java", just to the change of mentality at the corporate. > > -- > Fabrizio Giudici - Java Architect, Project Manager > Tidalwave s.a.s. - "We make Java work. Everywhere." > java.net/blog/fabriziogiudici -www.tidalwave.it/people > fabrizio.giud...@tidalwave.it -- 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.
