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Ambitious but perhaps slightly naive? If Oracle have decided that they want to build the best Solaris engineering team then it's only a matter of time before t
by nochiel 16y ago
Ambitious but perhaps slightly naive?
If Oracle have decided that they want to build the best Solaris engineering team then it's only a matter of time before they actually do.
The best engineers gravitate towards the hardest problems, the biggest paycheques and other brilliant hackers. Oracle easily provides the first and will quickly provide the last two.
In fact, it won't surprise me to see people who've recently left going back to Oracle within a year or two. Either that, or people better than they are will fill the empty slots.
Worse still, anyone working on OpenSolaris is simply doing R&D for Oracle.
- JoachimSchipper 16y agoWhile I agree with the "free work" thing, Oracle doesn't necessarily have all the great hackers - lots of those have already left.
- bcantrill 16y agoYou are missing an important motivator of great engineers: we seek out hard, commercially-relevant problems of course, but these problems must also be societally relevant and responsible. While our actions may often reflect it only implicitly, many of us take this professional responsibility to society very seriously; we need to be engaged in enterprises that both understand and encourage this. Conversely, when an organization loses engineers over issues of principle, getting them back is essentially impossible.