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How was Oracle to work at?

• grepfru_it 3y ago
  Not OP but I loved oracle in the 90s/early 2000s. After the Sun acquisition it became cutthroat and I left. IBM acquiring redhat seems very similar
• fragmede 3y ago
  Post acquisition, we moved offices, and used their HR department, and certain product decisions were made for us, but we largely did our own thing, for better or worse, so I don't know how much I can speak about how it was to work at Oracle. We were under Wim Coekaerts who is a big open source guy. Oracle's reputation as a cutthroat legal entity is well deserved, but working at that side of the company it felt unfair because, Oracle's open source contributions with VirtualBox, the UEK, and others are lost in the grar over MySQL. I think the biggest "big company" blunder while I was there was a public blog post by someone high up at the company decrying open source as bad/wrong while at the same time, Oracle was doing all this other open source stuff.
  • latchkey 3y ago
    Funny given that they have been selling open source software for ages... https://docs.oracle.com/cd/B10463_01/web.904/b10320/apjsvsup.htm https://docs.oracle.com/cd/B10463_01/web.904/b10320/apjsvsup... I believe this was circa 2000, but going on longer than that.
  • yjftsjthsd-h 3y ago
    > but working at that side of the company it felt unfair because, Oracle's open source contributions with VirtualBox, the UEK, and others are lost in the grar over MySQL. They are also remembered for closing OpenSolaris and shaking people down over the VirtualBox extension pack ( https://www.theregister.com/2019/10/04/oracle_virtualbox_merula/ https://www.theregister.com/2019/10/04/oracle_virtualbox_mer... ).
    • andyjohnson0 3y ago
      > grar Useful word.