Does Google have a focus? They are going pretty well.
If you are on the market you have to diversify yourproduct portfolio to be
able to minimize risk, and hopethat one technology will bring revenues to cover
all possiblelooses on other sides. This is how life goes. When youdid not found
your "successful project" and you experiencerecession then you will have to do
exactly what SUN execsdid. This could happen to ORACLE, too. Only difference
isthat ORACLE had more luck than SUN.
You cannot eliminate uncertainty that future brings.Otherwise, we could
think about it that we inventedtime-machine.
Uros
---------------------------------------------"Man is the lowest-cost,
150-pound, nonlinear, all-purpose computer system which can be mass-produced
by unskilled labor."-NASA in 1965
> Date: Mon, 25 Jan 2010 22:41:42 -0800
> From: [email protected]
> CC: [email protected]; [email protected]
> Subject: Re: [osol-discuss]
> http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/01/22/sun_schwartz_signoff/
>
> Edward Ned Harvey wrote:
> >> http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/01/22/sun_schwartz_signoff/
> >>
> >> I always knew (after 2006 at least) that JS is a God-damn *TRAITOR*.
> >>
> >> ¨Upon change in control, every employee needs to emotionally resign
> >> from Sun. Go home, light a candle, and let go of the expectations and
> >> assumptions that defined Sun as a workplace. Honor and remember them,
> >> but let them go.¨
> >>
> >
> > I don't think there's anything wrong with that at all. He's right. Those
> > people from Sun who are moving on to Oracle ... they are getting new bosses,
> > and a new corporate culture, and moving in a new direction. This is not
> > comfortable, but it's better than getting terminated if the company
> > collapsed.
> >
> > Oracle didn't buy Sun to gain their idealism or culture. They wanted to
> > acquire talent and technology. Those employees who are transitioning ...
> > must accept the fact that it is a transition. Things will not remain the
> > same. They must embrace change, and welcome their new ... Robotic
> > overlords. ;-) Seriously though, except the overlords part.
> >
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> From my standpoint as a current Sun employee, my biggest problem with
> Sun has been it's lack of focus. We've spent way to much time, effort,
> and money doing a variety of neat things, all which /might/ be really
> sweet. However, as a consequence, all of them tend to be late-to-market
> or perpetually starved for resources to accomplish their stated goals.
> I hold Sun's Sr. management responsible for this lack of focus, in that
> they've flailed around, and been unable to make the hard decisions as to
> WHICH "cool" tech is worth the 100% effort (and, stick to those
> assessments for more than 6 months), and then cut (or, preferably
> reassign) those resources from non-priority projects. This problem has
> been exacerbated by the layoffs in the last two years, where, instead of
> cutting whole teams and canceling projects, we've had to absorb 10% cut
> across most divisions, without a corresponding adjustment of priorities
> and goals.
>
> The sorry thing I see of this whole merger is that it was COMPLETELY
> UNNECESSARY. Sun had more than enough cash on hand, and quite a few
> very profitable products. We could very well have returned to being a
> (quite) profitable company, if a hard focus could have been attained.
> And, of course, the idiot distraction of trying to buy other companies
> (MySQL, anyone?) which don't help our existing core competencies.
>
> I like Jonathan, and supported many of his initiatives. But he
> fundamentally failed in being able to reign-in and refocus Sun, which
> was what could have saved the company. It's sad.
>
> We'll see what the Oracle buyout does for focus and budgets (I'm
> actually hopeful here). I'm also hoping we can retain some of the
> fabulously innovative culture here, but that's a much more sketchy
> possibility.
>
> Then again, what do I really know. I'm just a line-level worker here.
>
>
> [I in no way speak for anyone but myself at Sun. This is merely my
> personal opinion.]
>
> --
> Erik Trimble
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