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That's a lot of very highly skilled staff which they won't be able to reassemble for another product or project for years. Those people will scatter to the wind
by Joeri 9y ago
That's a lot of very highly skilled staff which they won't be able to reassemble for another product or project for years. Those people will scatter to the winds now. It's a shame they lacked the imagination to make them do something new.
But then Oracle doesn't seem to have the organizational capability to start major new successful product lines anymore. They grow through acquisition.
- devwastaken 9y agoIt is a shame for the Solaris project, but I feel anyone who would stay with Oracle for so long knew it wasn't about the tech and all about the money.
- erikb 9y agoIt may also be that the truly talentented already left a few years ago.
- floatboth 9y agoOf course. Everyone who cared about Solaris immediately started a fork called illumos!
- ptero 9y agoI think most of the folks able to work on something different left a while ago. I am sure working on Solaris support at Oracle they saw the writing on the wall. Also, some of those "firings" come with a decent chunk of money; maybe some of the folks who stayed made a rational choice of waiting until fired, then will move to a prearranged job somewhere else.
- fred_is_fred 9y agoAnyone still left is likely far too comfortable working on Solaris, not really interested in working on something different or like you said they would have left.
- NelsonMinar 9y agoMost of the folks scattered years ago. A lot of them ended up at Google.