Linked by Thom Holwerda on Thu 10th Sep 2009 19:41 UTC, submitted by poundsmack
There we are! It took them a while, but Oracle has finally said a few things about the future of Sun's SPARC and Solaris products. Oracle placed an ad in the European edition of The Wall Street Journal listing four plans the company has with SPARC and Solaris.
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Probably because there's a lot of pretty strong rumours and firm events to suggest that all is not well, and many are people who have been with the company for a long time?
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Quite how you can say that there isn't a problem with talent leaving, distractions and morale there I don't know. It's an open 'pretend' secret in many circles and the result of a classic case of being in a market where costs are too high but not being able to maintain what you have when you cut. "
I'll put it very plainly, I know *many* of the engineers that work on Solaris at Sun and they haven't gone anywhere. The media likes to make big noise about people that leave whenever a company is having problems, but that's all it is: noise.
It's true that Sun has laid off many people, but so did a lot of other companies over the last two years (hello, recession!). Yet, despite that, I can tell you with certainty that Sun has kept its core talent, and none of them really want to leave.