* Posts by carnage3604

2 publicly visible posts • joined 12 Mar 2019

Loss-making $15bn hipster chat biz Slack suddenly less appetising to investors as it predicts deeper losses

carnage3604

Hangouts was fine

What's equally crazy is how Google killed / butchered / neglected / abused Hangouts (which most of the early Slack adopters had via G Suite) and those same companies are now paying to use something that does 99% of the same thing. Slack is a glorified .gif sharing network and I seriously doubt it contributes in anyway to effective and productive working.

Just like open plan offices - it's noisey, a distraction and should be eliminated immediately.

Not a great day for Oracle: Top cloud exec jumps ship, analyst recommends cutting shares

carnage3604

Hate to say it but ...

You'd be surprised how many SaaS businesses hire ex-SAP, Oracle and I people. For all the faults of Oracle platforms and technology, the people typically know how to build a sales engine and I imagine that's what he's been hired to do (for a few years a complaint levelled at Google was they didn't know how to sell to Enterprise). It'll be interesting to see how they adapt to the culture as I imagine it's very different between Oracle and Google, but if they are putting $$$ on the board then culture is irrelevant.