Why I Work for Oracle
Jeff Smith
Product Manager | Databases | Blogger | Software Development | Cloud | Social | Community Management | Product Marketing
Imagine having access to millions of developers, and having the opportunity to save for each of them, just a few seconds a day.
That equation made my decision to join Oracle Corp. 4 years ago a total no-brainer.
4+ million users spending hours a day in the tool I help build. As a product manager, if I help influence once feature or feature-tweak that takes an operation from 6 clicks to 2 clicks, that's a pretty nice payback.
I was at a company where my performance was based on dollars spent on our products. That's easy to measure.
Now I'm at a company that judges me based on dollars and seconds saved using our products. That's harder to measure maybe, but the exposure is 2-3 times larger. And the payback is limitless.
My job is simply to make the average job of the average Oracle database user, easier.
So, what can we build today to make your job tomorrow that much easier? Is it a widget, a right-click, and entire new product or platform?
We're working on all of those things.
Do we make money at the end of the day? Yes. But do I also help other people make lots of money and pay their mortgages, school tuitions, and help fund countless charities, and pet projects? I think so. And I sleep VERY well at night.
P.S. I might just be a wee bit evil. I always related to Mr. Burns on the Simpsons.
Senior IT Executive | Driving Success with Oracle Applications
9 年Like this article A LOT, mainly because it pegs the best part of working in the IT biz...making things a little better for your users. Very cool.
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9 年Why is it that some people feel a need to meet an upbeat post with negative energy? None of the complaints have anything to do with the value Jeff Smith brings to the Oracle community. If you are unhappy with support, bring it up with your sales rep or support contact. If you are unhappy with how Oracle integrated SUN, bring it up with whoever was responsible. If you are unhappy with SQL Developer, bring it up with Jeff. That is the stuff he can and will help make better. Personally, I am just amazed with the quality and features we get with tools that are essentially free. I really enjoy working with SQL Developer. Anything I feel it does not do well enough is usually because I don't realize how it can be done. Then when I sit there all content and think there is nothing I REALLY want or need added to SQL Developer, out comes SQL CL and suddenly I realize that I didn't know I really needed that flavor of SQL Developer.
Solution Architect & Manager Consulting Delivery @ CGI
9 年Yeah... I have Friends working for Oracle and they have All Environments available to Practice and do R N D. To My Surprise their Interview Questions are also based on R N D s that have done. One of my Friend have recently Attended Interview @ Oracle India Bangalore and one of the Basic Question was ask to him was as follow. What will happen to Database if I delete One Log Group with all it's Member? Now Question is simple one and very basic, but product of R N D s. Real world question should be, What if I lost all my Redo Log Members for One Group due to Disk Failure or any other issue?, which is again rare case scenario as we are using SAN and Multiplexing given by Oracle Only. Now with those R N Ds one can become master of One thing, but jack of all is hard to find in Oracle. Who is not master in One thing but Knowing almost all things. Even we have faced during raising SR also, if We Give ASM Issue, then RAC Team will say, it's out of our scope, I will forward your SR to ASM Team and Same with Performance Team...
SVP/CTO Oracle DBA Practice - OracleMan Consulting
9 年and they let you play with cool stuff and interact directly with Earl
I just wish Oracle wasn't the place where open source comes to die (MySQL, Java). Otherwise you guys generally make pretty good products, especially on the server side.