Apologies for starting all this but! <stream_of_conscious> It sort of makes me think when an organisation/company says "Our best asset is out people!", how can you buy that company/asset and more importantly how can you put a value on it? Like a football team over here how much would you spend buying Liverpool if Gerrard, Torres and Reina can simply see out their contracts and leave! Yes companies have assets, service agreements, buildings, even a good name and order books but in a world where you are only as good as the last thing you did, the money spent buying Sun does seem rather unusual! Interesting that most of the names below seem to have gone to "smaller outfits" (non-derogatory term)! Not sure any have gone to IBM, Microsoft, HP or even Google! Is small truly beautiful now? </stream_of_conscious>
Paul -----Original Message----- From: Edward Martinez [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: 01 November 2010 13:29 To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Solaris 11 Express On 11/01/10 01:41, Michael wrote: > On Mon, Nov 1, 2010 at 07:07, Edward Martinez<[email protected]> wrote: >> On 10/31/10 02:54, Paul Johnston wrote: >>> . Each discussion is led by a Solaris engineering or technical expert. >>> >> Whatever is left, they already lost their top devs, > maybe the people who are left aren't the "stars" you've come to > revere, but there's tons of top grade engineers left in the Solaris > organisation, and you'd do well not to belittle their efforts. > > Michael I'm sure the remaining are top grade engineers, but the following are the names of the people that have already left oracle and they the ones that invented many of solaris 10 and beyond tech: SMF,Dtrace,ZFS,etc Ian Murdock Tim Bray Simon Phipps Garrett D'Amore Bryan Cantrill Adam Leventhal Jeff Bonwick Michael W. Shapiro Bill Moore Brenden Gregg I don't know if the other devs have the skills to invent something like: ZFS,dtrace,etc, because i don't know who they are their names don't stand out like these devs did, when they were at sun/oracle:-) Regards Edwards _______________________________________________ OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss _______________________________________________ OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss
