Right as Oracle lays off large numbers of staff, their social media team is posting that they are looking for folks to blog about cloud.
"Looking for bloggers to write about DevOps, Containers and Cloud. Can offer Fame but not fortune. Contact me at *"
So now you can work for Oracle for free! So very sad.
Look like the same logic that oracle tried to apply to google, they lost that lawsuit , but yes no mistaking the greed behind the thinking
Not sure your everyday garden variety of developers are ready for oracle lawyers
http://www.computerweekly.com/opinion/Beware-of-Oracles-developer-Trojan
Rigjt on 2ere that is the issues - not trusting oracle not to rape your bottom line, which is of course what oracle specializes in
@1sb1 - sadly, from a P&L perspective, it may be easier and cheaper to hire bloggers than to give cloud accounts to employees. I wonder if they make the bloggers use purely trial accounts or get them to also pay for their own cloud subscription?
I feel really bad for the folks who got laid off, this isn't on them at all. They really tried to keep the Sun spirit alive.
As a former long term customer it was the Oracle takeover that made Sparc/Solaris untenable for any business not completely entrenched in their products and who could afford a very high level of support. After Oracle took over they foreclosed anything resembling economical service and support options. Then they axed support for legacy hardware and software without a reasonable alternative. Then AWS came along and it was see you later. How can I recommend Oracle Sparc and the everlasting galactic support costs to our bean counters when we're trying to stay afloat on thinner margins? The value just isn't there compared to the alternatives. All Oracle wants is a high margin business. AWS is eating their lunch. Oracle Cloud is a non-starter because we don't trust Oracle to not rape our bottom line. They are dead to us.
we all did our jobs, and then some. In the end it didn't matter who was in charge of sparc or Solaris or how they did things. The platform went from we are the dot in dot com to a niche next stop the computer museum.
You are symptomatic of the predicament Sun was in when Oracle took them over. Sun was dying on its feet with the ponytail in charge. SPARC and Solaris would have withered and died long ago but for Oracle's stability. Oracle brought seen years of stability to the systems group so we should all be thankful to have been part of that.
The blogger guy. Your attitude stinks like a lot of those who left Oracle in the early years after the takeover. You never fully appreciated what Oracle did for Sun keeping the hardware/software going. There were Oracle rules and regulations because they make $money. Something Sun under the ponytail simply couldn't do. When you were working and getting $ for your services then everything you did was owned by the company. That message was lost to a lot of senior engineering staff at Sun and they were the problem not Oracle. Oracle simply came in and told them how it was now. None of the regular engineering staff had a problem as they got on with their jobs.
The stinky attitudes about Oracle are from senior engineers who were told to earn their wages. Don't be deceived by the voices on here who talk down Oracle all the time. The vast majority of us are more than happy with our Oracle trip.
this is pretty rich considering that Sun had a piece of pioneering corporate blogging as marketing activity supported from the top. Unfortunately, that happened to be a complete former McKinsey consulting dork named . . . . look it up the history of the last years of Sun if you don't know.
I had a Sun blog. It wasn't much, but before the platform really took off, mine was in the top 10 or 20 regularly. There was always good, and sometimes difficult, discussion on the blogging alias about whether the bloggers should control the content or if the marketing dept. should. If you were part of that time and community, you know what I am talking about.
Then Oracle came in with their controlling ways, and having an oracle blog was a nightmare of rules and regulations, and you could not resist. Or discuss. At that point it was clear that the marketing dept. won.
Why don't they hire Baghdad Bob?
Just check out his resume with stuff like "We made them drink poison last night and Saddam Hussein's soldiers and his great forces gave the Americans a lesson which will not be forgotten by history. Truly."
"Blair... is accusing us of executing British soldiers. We want to tell him that we have not executed anybody. They are either killed in battle, most of them get killed because they are cowards anyway, the rest they just get captured."
You know Oracle employees would love to blog about cloud but none of them can get their own cloud accounts. How are they going to be able to blog about it?
Where are they posting this? I'm not interested in applying; I'm just curious where they think this is a clever thing to write.
Well, yeah, need people to spread the gospel of oracle bull. That's the new oracle sales model: call center and blogging, no more experienced field sales people
This is the most ridiculous thing I heard today