Oracle's fourth quarter profit just jumped 24%.
Indeed, Oracle has posted a nice, healthy profit, and the bean counters are saying that Sun, which was bleeding money at this time last year, actually contributed to the healthy bottom line. Software license sales are up, and Oracle managed to continue to sell $1.2 billion dollars in Sun hardware.
But not everything is rosy within what is left of the Sun ranks at Oracle, as top talent continues to leave, and those that remain grumble with disillusionment. Since leaving himself, James Gosling, the father of Java, says he has been spending "an awful lot of time talking to people about life at Oracle. They need a place to vent, and I try to be a good listener. The exodus has been a thundering stampede. Pretty soon, all Larry will have left is an IP portfolio. Perhaps that's all he wanted: there's precious little evidence that he was interested in any of the people. "
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