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Re:Simply Hired is shutting down June 26 by mathattack on Tuesday May 31, 2016 @07:29PM (#11811093)
The purchase was 6+ years ago, and the deadwood is still there?
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Re:Simply Hired is shutting down June 26 by bcantrill on Tuesday May 31, 2016 @07:58PM (#11811212)
Absolutely! It is, after all, deadwood -- and given that it's broadly resistant to Oracle's management-by-asphyxiation, it will likely be there for quite some time to come...
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Re:Simply Hired is shutting down June 26 by shemnon42 on Tuesday May 31, 2016 @08:38PM (#11811359)
Can confirm, although the asphyxiation often comes from a level or two up.
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Re:Simply Hired is shutting down June 26 by mathattack on Wednesday June 01, 2016 @07:53AM (#11813631)
What do you mean by "Oracle's management-by-asphyxiation"?

And is it that Oracle has such marketplace strength that it can get away with holding the deadwood? I had heard that Oracle was a very competitive place.

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Re:Simply Hired is shutting down June 26 by Zelmor on Wednesday June 01, 2016 @08:37AM (#11813857)
"Too big to fail" market attitude, I guess.
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Re:Simply Hired is shutting down June 26 by mathattack on Wednesday June 01, 2016 @09:11AM (#11814058)
"Too big to fail" usually involves outsiders (government) propping up companies. (Think GM or Bank of America) I don't think the government is propping up Oracle.
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Re:Simply Hired is shutting down June 26 by anexprogrammer on Wednesday June 01, 2016 @01:08AM (#11812168)
Deadwood manages to stay, unnoticed by management, for decades. Most companies of a size has plenty, the body-shops (EDS etc) seem to consist of mainly deadwood.
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Re:Simply Hired is shutting down June 26 by mathattack on Wednesday June 01, 2016 @07:52AM (#11813625)
True - if the deadwood can still be billed out, it lasts.
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Re:Simply Hired is shutting down June 26 by jazzyk on Wednesday June 01, 2016 @11:17AM (#11815022)
A lot of the deadwood is management :-)
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