SAP to open a new front...

The announcement of Sybase beeing bought by SAP is an important move, opening the competition play in both the Apps and the Database market.
The purchase of Sybase is the fifth-largest software takeover ever, according to Bloomberg data

Read more : Business Week

Sun France Sales On Strike

This is yet quite an unusual event in our companies, but the Change In Control process really triggered anger from sales force. The sudden change in engagement procedures, sales conditions, especially the support sales ones, severly jammed the "happy merge momentum".

Oracle/Sun Management is asked to provide urgent answers to have the sales force back on line, fully engaged to fullfill their objectives without restraints.

World's second most admired company ?

For your information, an interesting comment sent to Fortune Magazine by one Oracle employee...
TO FORTUNE MAGAZINE

I looked at two of your most recent research findings and was surprised, even shocked by an inconsistency. In your list of the World’s Most Admired Companies, in the sub-list by industry Oracle appears as number 2, behind Adobe (they are both put under “Software”.) And Apple (which appears in a different category, “Hardware”) is number 1. Any casual reader would think that the two companies are almost equally “admirable.” But as anybody with any knowledge of the high-tech industry knows these two companies are as different as day and night. Apple succeeded because it has loyal customers and great products, whereas Oracle, famous for its buggy products and long-suffering customers, is doing great only because it has killed all the competition. Unable to best his competitors, Ellison has been buying them one after the other (PeopleSoft, Siebel, BEA etc.) so that now a company that wants a database system with a business software on top has only one choice: Oracle. That is hardly a mark of excellence, just of a predator winning in the business jungle with anti-trust bodies abdicating their responsibilities
So, please, don't compare Apple and Oracle, you are really mixing apples with ...bad apples.

Your methodology of basing such findings on just results and relying on fellow executives is at best disingenuous, at worst pernicious: if to be admired you only look at how profitable a business is, then you should have the Mafia on top of the list, since it’s by far the most profitable business in the world (and shares many management traits with Oracle, by the way.) My point is actually made by none other than yourselves in your list of the Best Companies to Work for. Here, since the results are based on employee surveys, Oracle is nowhere to be seen and justly so: it is (in)famous throughout the industry for the horrendous way it treats its employees. Maybe you should point out that being the most admired company is NOT synonymous with a Best Company to Work for as evidenced by the Oracle case

Keep up Beeing the bests -- But Use antics

Oracle trendemous commercial successes hide a more pityfull reality with an heavy disinvestment any many internal infrastructure areas. The FY01 2 Billion dollar internal IT economy plan, killing thousands of servers worldwide, bought a lot of centralisation, global efficiency on global processes but destroyed many precious sandboxes used in Support, Consulting, Pre-Sales.

The Oracle Virtualisation program has been very successful for customer infrastructures but keeps on beeing quite ridiculous for thousands of Oracle experts. Many of us still have to fight to build, transport, manager their VM images, with a complete lack of infrastructure sharing.
Networks, disks are kept busy transporting Virtual machines from one expert to the other, in a typical tribal image exchange.
Funding for machines is kept at the absolute minimum, without significant professional live program to build on-demand sandboxes.
Last but not least, the total shutdown of metalink external bug accesses has killed a lot of Expert Services value, in a time where value selling has never been so critical.

We feel Sun merger will not change the course of action, as we mainly miss the political strength to make things happen efficiently in the bottom-up approach.

Will any manager play its role and dare raising a voice that our way of playing internally with technology is now obsolete and having a very negative impact ?
Will employee reps voices be heard someday ?
Can success keep on going with less and less efficiency in the field ?

We still wait for official answers.

Dear Sun Employees - Resistance is futile

We do extend a very warm welcome to all Sun Employees. We do hope you will add your technological distinctiveness to our own. Regarding the biological distinctiveness, we do hope some future, but everything will be in the hand of the great architect. And in many cases, that stories are like the one below...





Do ask for World wide employee consultations and be especially careful when talking about "job mapping", a key process before any redundancies, and very important to your future within Oracle.

Sun Oracle Merger - Estern Resistance

While the EU approval definitly seems to be on the edge of a final clearance, China and Russia, massively invested in Open Source Software, recently extended their merger probes.

Read More : IT World, HelpMySQL,

Oracle & Communities - Still a lot to do

Well, we should be glad Oracle continues the emergency investments in the communities, and offering a donation match from its employees concerned by the Haiti Disaster Relief. However.
Too bad, the funding is limited to 1 Millions USD, making roughly a maximum of 10 USD per employee.

But why wouldn't Oracle show the community investment by laying done a corporate 1 million USD donation, and then appealing for extra funding though its employees.
This still sounds very limited, taking the full 2008 number of 8,5 millions USD in Oracle Donations.

And by the way, did you try to make a donation ?
You'll be asked to move to the United States, as a US State is a mandatory field in your adress !