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The purchase was 6+ years ago, and the deadwood is still there?
by mathattack 10y ago
The purchase was 6+ years ago, and the deadwood is still there?
- bcantrill 10y agoAbsolutely! It is, after all, deadwood -- and given that it's broadly resistant to Oracle's management-by-asphyxiation, it will likely be there for quite some time to come...
- shemnon42 10y agoCan confirm, although the asphyxiation often comes from a level or two up.
- mathattack 10y agoWhat do you mean by "Oracle's management-by-asphyxiation"? And is it that Oracle has such marketplace strength that it can get away with holding the deadwood? I had heard that Oracle was a very competitive place.
- Zelmor 10y ago"Too big to fail" market attitude, I guess.
- mathattack 10y ago"Too big to fail" usually involves outsiders (government) propping up companies. (Think GM or Bank of America) I don't think the government is propping up Oracle.
- anexprogrammer 10y agoDeadwood manages to stay, unnoticed by management, for decades. Most companies of a size has plenty, the body-shops (EDS etc) seem to consist of mainly deadwood.
- mathattack 10y agoTrue - if the deadwood can still be billed out, it lasts.
- jazzyk 10y agoA lot of the deadwood is management :-)