Don't worry, @Tor! I got to today's podcast and I had to hear you announce you now worked for Oracle.
I worked for Oracle for eight years and was myself purchased in 1998... for considerably less than they paid for you! My observation is that even with huge acquisitions like PeopleSoft and Siebel, the company was more worried about retaining people from the acquisition than about retaining the existing people. Don't sell Larry Ellison short, or the Java element at Oracle. He presided directly over a rather intense in-company debate on a Java technology in the late 1990's, as recalled by a friend of mine. He followed it completely and judged it correctly (siding with my friend ;). Now Oracle has completely rededicated its Java-in-the-database effort too... It's a great place to do Java. I must say with regret that this may damage or kill JDeveloper, which I learned to love. Oracle tends to kill its old products when it buys new ones. Might be good for NetBeans! Good luck! -- Andrew Wolfe On Apr 20, 8:42 am, Donald Bell <[email protected]> wrote: > I felt the reason that Oracle is leaning towards the BEA stuff over > their own was more because BEA had better technical products in this > space. > > How do you think Oracle handled the PeopleSoft & JD Edwards > applications that they acquired when Oracle acquired PeopleSoft? > > Donald Bell --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "The Java Posse" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/javaposse?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
