MySQL veteran drifts clear of Oracle Borg
Found on The Register on Wednesday, 06 October 2010
Kaj Arnö has left Oracle quietly, having submitted his resignation in June two days before Sun Microsystems' legal entity in Germany ceased to operate. Arnö was based in Munich.
Since Oracle's acquisition, Oracle has lost raw MySQL talent including MySQL architect Brian Aker and his Drizzle engineering team.
Not only that, but Oracle has been losing some respected Sun blue-blood talent, including Java father James Gosling, XML co-creator and director of web technologies Tim Bray, and the Solaris engineering brains who'd worked on the revolutionary ZFS.
All that makes it appear that working at Oracle is not really that great. Knowing Oracle, it will just shrug and downplay things.