Comments on: ✍ A Move In The Minkheim

By: Patrick Finch

Patrick Finch — Sun, 28 Feb 2010 18:54:51 +0000

Well, I guess that is an epitaph for b.s.c. Linda (and Simon!) thank you for making it what it was.

By: webmink

webmink — Sat, 27 Feb 2010 16:04:33 +0000

You were fantastic, Linda, thanks for all you did for all of us b.s.c bloggers while you were at Sun. The whole Sun blogging experience was one of the highlights of my career.

By: Skrocki

Skrocki — Sat, 27 Feb 2010 15:56:03 +0000

Subscribed! Thanks for your support & contributions to http://blogs.sun.com, Simon! It was fun & enriching.

By: webmink

webmink — Sat, 27 Feb 2010 14:50:53 +0000

Note that I am only talking about moving my blog away from Oracle-owned hosting here, not discussing changing jobs.

By: Yeti

Yeti — Sat, 27 Feb 2010 14:29:23 +0000

It’s really too early for people to be leaving through choice… so far, development of Sun products is continuing much as it did before Oracle took over. I’d expect this to change over time as Oracle decide what will make money and what won’t, and that’s when you’ll probably see people choosing to move to companies more like the Sun of old.

By: webmink

webmink — Fri, 26 Feb 2010 23:17:55 +0000

Yes, this is now the feed to follow. I’ll see what I can do about the others but it woul dbe best for you to use http://webmink.com/feed/

By: PB

PB — Fri, 26 Feb 2010 18:08:34 +0000

Does this supersede all of the other feed URL’s that I’ve accumulated for your over the years? Namely,

http://www.webmink.net/index.rss
http://www.webmink.net/webmink_rss.xml
http://blogs.sun.com/webmink/feed/entries/atom
http://weblogs.java.net/blog/webmink/index.rdf

For the past many months, I’ve only been looking at the third listed feed, anyway.

By: webmink

webmink — Thu, 25 Feb 2010 22:15:00 +0000

Moving here from blogs.sun.com is very easy indeed…

By: webmink

webmink — Thu, 25 Feb 2010 21:01:07 +0000

It’s a matter of tone really – it’s been made pretty clear that Oracle blogging is about Oracle business, and I don’t feel comfortable making comments on politics and religion on their web properties (even though in most cases I do so in relation to digital freedoms. Don’t read too much into it, but do expect to see more people making the switch.

By: Martin Decky

Martin Decky — Thu, 25 Feb 2010 18:42:07 +0000

I can hear so many people speaking sorrowfully about this “obvious shift in attitude”, especially some of my friends at Sun Microsystems Czech (which is still the official name, at least for the state authorities).

But nobody goes any further and nobody explains how exactly is the attitude changing and what does it mean (not for the customers or stocks, but for them personally, for the OpenSolaris community outside the company and so on).

On the other hand, I don’t see people massively leaving their jobs at Sun (pardon me, Oracle) because of frustration and thinking whether they can better leverage their kernel coding skills at Linux vendors or at Microsoft ..

So, can you please define what is this “shift in attitude” about? Why is everybody speaking in puzzles?