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Jonathan Schwartz Blog

25 points by bgray 17y ago

frodo 17y ago
Is it the real jonathan?
- andrewljohnson 17y ago
  I had the same question... I'm also positive it was marketing flacks writing his Sun blog.
- bgray 17y ago
  I was wondering the same thing until I saw it linked from his account on Twitter. http://twitter.com/OpenJonathan/status/8972790094 http://twitter.com/OpenJonathan/status/8972790094
100k 17y ago
"What I Couldn't Say..." about driving a Fortune 500 company into the ground.
- deleted 17y ago
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- hga 17y ago
  Come on, he wasn't CEO until April of 2006; all you can fairly say is that he failed to save Sun, which is a very different thing.
  - i386 17y ago
    "The decision to go with Microsoft was based on overall value - it was also predicated upon their endorsement of and agreement to help promote MySQL. Stay tuned for more details on what we'll be doing together." From: http://blogs.sun.com/jonathan/entry/winds_of_change_are_blowing http://blogs.sun.com/jonathan/entry/winds_of_change_are_blow... This has always been my favourite example of Shwartz' inability to grasp reality. Perhaps I am interpreting this incorrectly but Microsoft "help[ing] promote MySQL?" This deal didn't sound sane in January 2008 and it looks even more ludicrous to me in 2010. By early 2008 the company had lost most of its value despite having a strong brand and a talented pool of engineers. What was going on at Sun? Deals to ship dinky browser bars with Java, JavaFX (which stood no chance in a market dominated by Adobe with Microsoft nipping at their ankles), no roadmap for JAVA 7, inability to see the potential benefits of ZFS on Linux - really, we could be here all evening. You don't "save" a company - You run a company and you should be "saving" it every day with every decision you make.
sabat 17y ago
I have had just about enough of My Little Pony. See this opinion piece from the SJ Mercury News (from yesterday) for a well-formed opinion: http://www.mercurynews.com/breaking-news/ci_14385237 http://www.mercurynews.com/breaking-news/ci_14385237 But in summation: - Schwartz will depart with $12.8 million in severance - The company will pay his health insurance premiums for two years - Average Sun employees got a maximum of three months of pay - Average Sun employees got a maximum of two months of health insurance, in some cases less. In January, Jonathan wrote to Sun employees: "For those that ultimately won't become a part of Oracle, this will be the first step in a new adventure." Then a few days ago he wrote a cute little haiku to announce his termination from OraSun. The laid off employees' haiku? Mike Cassidy, who wrote this editorial for the Mercury News, says it would go something like this: State unemployment / over 12 percent today / Losing health insurance soon.

25 points by bgray 17y ago

frodo 17y ago

Is it the real jonathan?

andrewljohnson 17y ago
I had the same question... I'm also positive it was marketing flacks writing his Sun blog.
bgray 17y ago
I was wondering the same thing until I saw it linked from his account on Twitter. http://twitter.com/OpenJonathan/status/8972790094 http://twitter.com/OpenJonathan/status/8972790094

100k 17y ago

"What I Couldn't Say..." about driving a Fortune 500 company into the ground.

deleted 17y ago
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hga 17y ago
Come on, he wasn't CEO until April of 2006; all you can fairly say is that he failed to save Sun, which is a very different thing.
- i386 17y ago
  "The decision to go with Microsoft was based on overall value - it was also predicated upon their endorsement of and agreement to help promote MySQL. Stay tuned for more details on what we'll be doing together." From: http://blogs.sun.com/jonathan/entry/winds_of_change_are_blowing http://blogs.sun.com/jonathan/entry/winds_of_change_are_blow... This has always been my favourite example of Shwartz' inability to grasp reality. Perhaps I am interpreting this incorrectly but Microsoft "help[ing] promote MySQL?" This deal didn't sound sane in January 2008 and it looks even more ludicrous to me in 2010. By early 2008 the company had lost most of its value despite having a strong brand and a talented pool of engineers. What was going on at Sun? Deals to ship dinky browser bars with Java, JavaFX (which stood no chance in a market dominated by Adobe with Microsoft nipping at their ankles), no roadmap for JAVA 7, inability to see the potential benefits of ZFS on Linux - really, we could be here all evening. You don't "save" a company - You run a company and you should be "saving" it every day with every decision you make.

sabat 17y ago

I have had just about enough of My Little Pony. See this opinion piece from the SJ Mercury News (from yesterday) for a well-formed opinion: http://www.mercurynews.com/breaking-news/ci_14385237 http://www.mercurynews.com/breaking-news/ci_14385237 But in summation: - Schwartz will depart with $12.8 million in severance - The company will pay his health insurance premiums for two years - Average Sun employees got a maximum of three months of pay - Average Sun employees got a maximum of two months of health insurance, in some cases less. In January, Jonathan wrote to Sun employees: "For those that ultimately won't become a part of Oracle, this will be the first step in a new adventure." Then a few days ago he wrote a cute little haiku to announce his termination from OraSun. The laid off employees' haiku? Mike Cassidy, who wrote this editorial for the Mercury News, says it would go something like this: State unemployment / over 12 percent today / Losing health insurance soon.