Thoughts on Sun and Oracle, with Reminiscence on DEC, Compaq, HP

James Gosling has left Oracle, saying it's time to move on... A whole lot of people have left Sun since the acquisition by Oracle was announced. Some of those people left Sun out of fear that their jobs would be eliminated (one supposedly expert financial analyst warned that 50% of Sun employees would lose their jobs -- that type of "news" will make people want to pack up and leave a company). Some were laid off between the announcement of the acquisition and its actual occurence. Others were laid off when the acquisition actually happened (though the percent of actual layoffs at that time should get that "expert" analyst fired)... But, post-acquisition, we are still seeing quite a lot of former Sun people leaving Oracle. I did not expect to see this. But then again, I actually work for O'Reilly, and my relationship with Sun and Oracle is from a distance (even though they provide the financial backing for java.net). In his post, James says: As to why I left, it's difficult to answer: Just about anything I could say that would be accurate and honest would do more harm than good. And he ends his "Time to move on" post with: Sun's blogging policy gave bloggers rights to their own works. The few more recent blog entries that I did at blogs.sun.com were written under somewhat more strict policies :-) I don't understand that. To me, the Sun and Oracle blogging policy differences look more like legale...

Date: April, 13 2010
Url: http://www.java.net/blog/editor/archive/2010/04/13/thoughts-sun-and-oracle-reminiscence-dec-compaq-hp

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