Note: Most of these videos have migrated to my YouTube channel. The links below are often broken. This is an up-to-date listing of nearly 400 technical videos I have been involved in, one way or another, in the six years I’ve been working with Solaris, illumos, SmartOS, and related people, technologies, and companies. They are… Continue reading Technical Videos
Tag: Oracle
Into the Belly of the Beast
(Part 4 of Resistance is Futile: The Oracle Acquisition) The “change in control” from Sun to Oracle took place, in the US, on Feb 15, 2010. I visited the Oracle campus in Redwood Shores that day, invited by one of Oracle’s few sanctioned social media experts. As it happened, that was also the day… Continue reading Into the Belly of the Beast
What to Expect When You’re Expecting – to Be Acquired
(Part 2 of Resistance is Futile: The Oracle Acquisition) I, too, received well-meaning advice from several high-profile Sun people: my job would disappear because Oracle “doesn’t do community” in the same way Sun did. This was true: we were told early on that our community work would be handed over to the small Oracle team… Continue reading What to Expect When You’re Expecting – to Be Acquired
Resistance is Futile: The Oracle Acquisition
The thing to understand about the illumos community is that it started out traumatized: most of us went through the baptism by fire that was the acquisition of Sun Microsystems by Oracle. My own part in all this was very minor, but I had a ringside seat on larger events. I recount here what I… Continue reading Resistance is Futile: The Oracle Acquisition
The Last of OpenSolaris
The summer of 2010 was largely a painful mess. I had moved to San Francisco in April, and by late May was very ill with a sinus infection that would eventually require months of antibiotics and two procedures to clear out. On the work side, Sun had been bought by Oracle, and we were in… Continue reading The Last of OpenSolaris