Re:Why I Quit Oracle (2010)
by bluedino on Sunday September 03, 2017 @06:49PM
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Wasn't McNealy on the Sun company ice hockey team back in the old days? It sounded like an incredible place to work back then
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Yeah, SUN was cool back in the day before it moved to the "cursed" Santa Clara building. Interestingly, their original office is now occupied by Facebook (1 Hacker Way) and there is still sign of SUN in front of Facebook - unofficially to remind Facebook it shouldn't stop innovating.
Re:Why I Quit Oracle (2010)
by scintill76 on Sunday September 03, 2017 @07:30PM
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Nice story about the sign; here's more and pictures: http://www.businessinsider.com/why-suns-logo-is-on-the-back-...
Re:Why I Quit Oracle (2010)
by lobster_johnson on Sunday September 03, 2017 @07:49PM
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What do you mean by "cursed"?
Scott McNealy blamed SUN's misfortune on moving to a former psychiatric ward in Santa Clara - it coincides with SUN's loss of luck (and some directors really believed the building was cursed). Also, business-wide there is a known "headquarters curse", when a company feels it needs to have a more representative HQ. Let's see what it does to Apple.
Re:Why I Quit Oracle (2010)
by fred_is_fred on Monday September 04, 2017 @12:10AM
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I think the failure has more to do with leaders who believe in curses than actual curses.
Yeah, I've played with him/against him in some practices. Much preferred playing with him, he is bigger than me and could flatten me easily. Pretty decent player, better than me (I coached Los Gatos High hockey so I have some insight into who makes a good player and who doesn't).