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Re:Oracle "sanitizes" Hudson's creator from wiki by spitfire on Sunday February 06, 2011 @06:13PM (#2186747)
Oracle doesn't sell technology. They sell solutions to {accounting, erp, mrp, etc} problems. Technology is just how they do it, the people buying it (and me, if I were buying oracle) don't care in the least about the technology.

Do you care about the fuel injectors in your car? What about the magnetron in your microwave?

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Re:Oracle "sanitizes" Hudson's creator from wiki by chc on Sunday February 06, 2011 @06:33PM (#2186801)
I don't care because they don't seem like details I need to worry about — but if all the mechanics or microwave repairmen said the one I had was a terrible choice, I might care.
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Re:Oracle "sanitizes" Hudson's creator from wiki by samt on Sunday February 06, 2011 @08:29PM (#2187113)
Except that Oracle is a platform company. As a CIO you are buying into a platform on top of which your in-house developers, or overpaid consultants, will be building a solution. ERP platforms are not Bingo Card Creator.
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Re:Oracle "sanitizes" Hudson's creator from wiki by spitfire on Sunday February 06, 2011 @08:51PM (#2187177)
Well, okay. but for a CEO the business comes first, developer comfort second. If it can't meet business objectives (which oracle certainly can) it doesn't matter how much developers love it.
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Re:Oracle "sanitizes" Hudson's creator from wiki by ehutch79 on Monday February 07, 2011 @12:38AM (#2187846)
Developer comfort is the difference between being woefully understaffed, and having a quality team supporting your business objectives.

If productivity drops, or you suddenly only have 50% of your development staff because management bought an inferior product that developers hate, I don't see how that helps the business?

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