On 7/1/2010 9:04 PM, me wrote:
Well I don't think that policy works in this instance since:
1. Most if not all features are shown through the ON portal.
2. This is "supposedly" a respin of b134 so everyone knows whats coming.
3. If they did not want to have anyone know about futures releases they would shutdown
their "Open Source" initiative.
I'm not saying it does "work". I'm saying that's what the policy *is*.
I suspect that over the next year, we're going to see Oracle re-consider
a whole bunch of its "standard" policies in all areas. Frankly, running
a company that has significant hardware sales, and one where Open Source
is a big component of the business, is *very* different than running a
closed-source, proprietary Software company. Up until now, all of
Oracle's acquisitions have been proprietary software companies, so
Oracle's model of how to do business has worked well with each
successive acquisition. Sun, however, is very distinctly different than
any of their previous purchases, and I think Oracle is only slowly
starting to realize that the Tried-and-True Way of doing things doesn't
work quite so well with Sun.
Given that I see no real indication that Oracle's management isn't
willing to make needed changes if profit is threatened (and, are willing
to spend cash to make an increased profit), I suspect the major hangup
is the time it takes the news that "this new 'Oracle Way' isn't working
well - we're losing sales" to boil up from the lower levels to Larry.
Once Larry sees that he's losing (potential) cash, expect holy hell to
break loose and things to change. Hopefully, that change will be
something we all consider better than the current situation, but I'd be
a big fat liar if I told you that I had even a small clue as to what
that change would be...
Sadly, I don't think anyone in the needed Sales/Management chains reads
these forums much.
As should be obvious by the above, I don't speak for Oracle in any
capacity here, nor to I know anything the public doesn't.
--
Erik Trimble
Java System Support
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Phone: x17195
Santa Clara, CA
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