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Oracle's acquisition of Sun seems to be leading to a similar exodus of talent as did Microsoft's long courtship of Yahoo.

• msluyter 17y ago
  Just curious. What is so bad about Oracle, exactly?
  • henrikschroder 17y ago
    They're very good at selling, but not so good at engineering. It's an average database product, with a ruthless sales team.
    • bjelkeman-again 17y ago
      I wish I could make my pal, who used to work for Oracle, write down some of the Oracle "war" stories which he told to me. But in essence what henrikschroder says is the truth.
  • nuclear_eclipse 17y ago
    Well, for one thing, Sun has long been a hardware-centric Unix powerhouse, and Oracle is a software company that focuses on databases and rebranded Linux distributions...