{"id":581,"date":"2006-02-16T11:19:38","date_gmt":"2006-02-16T01:19:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.flamingspork.com\/blog\/2006\/02\/16\/your-work-is-seen-by-a-lot-of-people\/"},"modified":"2006-02-16T11:19:38","modified_gmt":"2006-02-16T01:19:38","slug":"your-work-is-seen-by-a-lot-of-people","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.flamingspork.com\/blog\/2006\/02\/16\/your-work-is-seen-by-a-lot-of-people\/","title":{"rendered":"your work is seen by a lot of people"},"content":{"rendered":"

Oracle has 50,000 employees. Thats 50,000 people waking up each day to work on Oracle products, and those 50,000 get paid by Oracle each day. We have 50,000 people download our software everyday and work to make it better. But we dont pay them. Which model would you rather have?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

A quote from our CEO Marten Mickos in “Oracle’s New Enemy<\/a>” over at forbes.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n

It is pretty neat to have your work seen by that many people each day.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Oracle has 50,000 employees. Thats 50,000 people waking up each day to work on Oracle products, and those 50,000 get paid by Oracle each day. We have 50,000 people download our software everyday and work to make it better. 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