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With media outlets like this, you don't need enemies

Tuesday, July 6. 2010

A few weeks ago i was very upset about an article in silicon.de totally misinterpreting the matching support policy. Yesterday i put a link into del.icio.us to an article in silicon.com titled "How Oracle has made Sun rise again" to save if for an article and as a "no-comment statement". This article provides a gem like this one:

President of the UK Oracle User Group Ronan Miles told silicon.com that Oracle has achieved much more on the hardware side of things than many expected through the rationalisation of the Sun business, including the removal of technology such as X86 servers.

Suuuuure .... it's just the way that we announced several new x86 servers a few days ago and that Larry is standing in front of a rack full of x86 servers in the picture in the same article. I can't believe that the lead of the Oracle User Group is that uninformed and somehow i tend to think that the part after the comma wasn't said this way. And even if Mr. Miles said this way, i'm expecting some checks and research from a journalist instead of just writing down everything someone is saying. That's the job of a journalist.

With media outlets like this you don't need enemies ...

Posted by Joerg Moellenkamp in English, Sun/Oracle, The IT Business at 11:16 | Comments (5) | Trackbacks (0)
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.. and there will be dozens of "tech magazines" and blogs etc which will pick up this story and carry it on, unreflected, and suddenly it will become common knowledge that Oracle has killed x86.. and when they read the new hardware announcements, there will be a huge outcry because of the chaotic roadmap of Oracle...

been there, seen that.. that's one of the less advantageous features of the new realtime internet journalism..

#1 Woo (Homepage) on 2010-07-06 12:00 (Reply)

Well if there wasn't so much secrecy around what's happening to ex-Sun products, journalists would not have to extrapolate! This is becoming ridiculous.

With a software/hardware provider like Oracle, you don't need press releases..

#2 Johnny on 2010-07-06 20:52 (Reply)

The article was published on the 5th of July, the new servers were announced on 28th of July and found their way through all the major IT news outlets. Exadata V2 full of x86 servers was announced on 15th September 2009. Could you explain me where there was the need to extrapolate?

#2.1 Joerg M. (Homepage) on 2010-07-06 21:11 (Reply)

- "article was published on the 5th of July" - i.e. written days before.
- "new servers were announced on 28th of July" (I guess you mean June) - i.e. likely after the article was written.
- "Exadata V2 full of x86 servers was announced on 15th September 2009." - That's months before Sun take-over was allowed.
Granted, the writer should have checked before publishing the article.
Just like you should have read the article before putting the link up, maybe?

#2.1.1 Johnny on 2010-07-06 23:00 (Reply)

Let's assume you are right about your point, that the article was already written on June 28th: I expect from any journalist that he or she revises his article when new information are available before the publishing date. 7 days are more than enough to do so. There isn't an excuse for such statements. It wasn't hours, it wasn't a single day ... it was a whole week. I think the author was perfectly aware that a major point in his article went away and he decided not to change it.

But corrections aren't the style of silicon.* . The article about the matching support policy wasn't corrected even after a comment explaining why the article is totally wrong.

Regarding Exadata: Do you really believe that Larry would kill all x86 when he announced an Exadata with own components and alienated a hardware vendor by doing so? Please ... don't insult yourself.

#2.1.1.1 Joerg Moellenkamp on 2010-07-07 07:03 (Reply)

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