lambersley

Remember the Stanford Prison Experiment; "bad company corrupts good people."

A software company who does not change the world, and/or change with the world, will die. The world is not dependent on Oracle DB though. Enterprises are chomping at the bits trying to get of Oracle DB. Evolution is brutal.

Oracle was late to Cloud and now late to AI. Maybe it's time Larry let someone else take the helm.

It doesn't sound like it. The articles references competition from low-cost providers, for which I'm assuming, VZN cannot match. As well, converting corporate stores into private franchises would have nothing to do with AGI.

Agreed. It reads like Seven of Nine realizing she's separated from the Collective and needs to rely lowly human capabilities. The insights into vendors was informative.

Perception. Interpretation. Either way, "sprint" is intended to imply short burst, definite endpoint that can be seen. A Burndown is about measured capacity. The only actual speed that matters is time to failure, i.e. "fail fast".

Crazy enough, I'm from the management school that believes the work is only the tool to develop the person and pay the bills. I will always sacrifice the work for the worker. It's sad that the majority of managers see this in reverse.

As a Dev Manager, please don't "fix it then-and-there." I've found that developers are great at fixing problems but terrible to prioritizing work. After all, its not their responsible to set priorities. The 'fix it then-and-there' on even a small issue has the potential to completely derail a project. Tech debt though, has to be treated with similar reverence to feature development.

$1.2T to OPERATE the F-35 program, yikes! I would love to see the TCO figures on an F-35 (or not). US Military budget concepts have always blown my mind.