Well, as of August 1st I am officially an Oracle employee.  So far it's been quite an experience.  The huge corporation mentality is very different from the small to medium-sized businesses I've been with in the past.  There's a department for everything; things are very modularized.

I can't help but feel like "just a number," but I suppose that comes with the territory.  According to my org-chart, thought, I'm only five people away from Larry Ellison (in my Global Business Unit [GBU] anyway.)  So, yeah, I'm insignificant.

The benefits are great and everyone is extremely willing to help.  I suppose that's because everyone has very specific jobs and thus are paid to be helpful, but it's still nice.  Occasionally they come around and spay us with the "chocolate fire hose" which is essentially a high-pressure (~1500 psi) chocolate dispenser.  And apparently we all now poop rainbows.

Anyway, outside of being swallowed by the technology giant, everything else has, so far, remained the same.  The local office is as it was and business continues as normal.  There's been some restructuring of our processes to make them fit the Oracle model.  This is a good thing as our original model just wasn't scalable.  Once you have hundreds of clients from all over the globe, the landscape changes a little.

Speaking of which, it's weird having to actually concern myself with timezones.  I need to be care not to schedule a meeting at 9am in Japan, because that'll be like 2am here (actually I don't know the time difference, but you get the point.)

If you'll excuse me, the chocolate fire hose is about to come my way...

* The views represented in this post and in this blog do not represent the views of my employer and may not be based in reality.  I don't think Larry Ellison poops rainbows.