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As the saying goes, opinions are like assholes; everyone has one. But not Google's executive suite these days. When Google restructured itself as the "Alphabet" holding company, the visionary IoT and science projects were moved out of Google division, and Indian-born Sundar Pichai was named CEO of the core Google company which handles search, Android, YouTube, and all the other high-volume IT stuff. And that's a good thing, according to a couple ex-Googlers interviewed by Re/code: "All the assholes have left" ; Pichai apparently has a rare blend of hard and soft skills.
At Google, this guy has moved upstairs. And apparently having a CEO who was a brilliant entrepreneur but also a complete jerk was hardly unique to Google, Steve Jobs being the canonical example among tech CEOs. We've recently learned about the way Jeff Bezos runs Amazon. An obvious question from these examples is, can an ambitious tech company rule the universe without being run by assholes?
(Score: 2) by zugedneb on Monday October 26 2015, @06:12AM
What the hell, most of the examples build on mass psychosis and/or fraud (google,apple,zynga,), and some of them are loosing (for a while now) popularity... (blizzard, yahoo)
The only "tech" company there is Oracle, and they have been around for a very very long time, also except for the "Larry" guy, I have never read anything on the net about what kind of people the rest are in the company...
In googles case, the tech it has is what it does not actually sell, namely the system for handling all that information.
And, I doubt that the actual tech part of that company has even one drama queen in the vicinity...
old saying: "a troll is a window into the soul of humanity" + also: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Ajax
(Score: 2) by NCommander on Monday October 26 2015, @09:25AM
The USENIX talk about illumos here [youtube.com] provides some insight into Oracle's culture, from the perspective of a Sun employee who stayed for a bit of time post merger. I recommend watching the entire thing; it explains a lot about Sun's dysfunction over the years.
Still always moving
(Score: 2) by zugedneb on Monday October 26 2015, @04:08PM
Watched it. By and large, it is sad than the Sun did set...
However... If u ask me, they were to expensive for their time.
At the university I was at (was oldtimer =) they went from Sun blade 100 to nameless PC with athlon 64 and debian. Until than, they had all kinds of Decs and mostly Suns...
This guy seems to lament the sunset, but he does not give details of the economy of the company in the last years, but I can imagine their problems...
My best memory of Sun is the sound and impression the CDROM made when it withdrew the tray... I think it was the sun blades... =)
old saying: "a troll is a window into the soul of humanity" + also: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Ajax
(Score: 2) by NCommander on Friday October 30 2015, @02:41PM
The only Sun systems I've ever had laptop style "pop out tray", push the button and it pops out on a spring.
Honestly, Sun did more for UNIX than most people give it credit; NFS (despite its problems) works on basically any *nix platform as a standard, ZFS is pretty awesome, Java ... well, if Swing didn't suck for one, and if it hadn't been in licensing hell for many years, it would have been even better. (I don't love the language, but being able to use Jython or other similar JVM-targetted languages is pretty nice).
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