Interestingly, this is the same guy that in a discussion of open source economics coined a term for the point when your closed source vendor pushes you too far and you switch to open source and called it the <i>Fuck You, Oracle</i> Point<p>(though there is historical reasons for that name, not just random swearing)<p><a href="http://blogs.sun.com/bmc/entry/the_economics_of_software" rel="nofollow">http://blogs.sun.com/bmc/entry/the_economics_of_software</a><p>random quote: <i>"doesn't it strike you as odd that your operating system is essentially free, but your database is still costing you forty grand per CPU?"</i>
"One of Sun’s greatest strengths was that we technologists were never discouraged from interacting directly and candidly with our customers and users, and many of our most important innovations came from these relationships."<p>Oracle discourages technologists from doing this. Bryan has a nice way of phrasing his reasons for leaving. I wish he had left a clue about his future venture too.
There is almost a sense of inevitability to all of this. The best and the brightest leave , the foot-soldiers get cut and the company culture/technology dies a slow,quiet death.<p>Sad but inevitable.