(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
Tag: Sun Microsystems
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
Solaris Videos
123 videos I did for Sun and later Oracle, plus a few later, can be found on my old YouTube channel. You might also like: No related posts.
Mike Shapiro of Sun and Stephen O’Grady of Redmonk
September, 2008 – filmed outside a bar in San Francisco. You might also like: No related posts.