Something in the opposite direction, from a few years back. Shortly after Oracle took over Sun (which had pitched itself at developers, as the article suggests)

Something in the opposite direction, from a few years back. Shortly after Oracle took over Sun (which had pitched itself at developers, as the article suggests), Tim Bray visited Oracle OpenWorld. Quote: "My question was: “OpenWorld is this totally all-about-business conference. The Oracle Develop meeting is just a second-rate sidebar. Where does Oracle go about building developer mindshare?” "I’ll try to reproduce the answer in full as best as I can remember it: “You don’t get it. The central relationship between Oracle and its customers is a business relationship, between an Oracle business expert and a customer business leader. The issues that come up in their conversations are business issues. “The concerns of developers are just not material at the level of that conversation; in fact, they’re apt to be dangerous distractions. ‘Developer mindshare’... what’s that, and why would Oracle care?” http://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/201x/2010/08/31/A-Story-of-O http://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/201x/2010/08/31/A-Story-of...