Hi. It's been a while since I started a new blog. Why start one now? Well, after tomorrow my current company blog, for reasons we'll get to shortly, will no longer be an option.
Let's start at the beginning. I joined Sun Microsystems about fourteen years ago. I saw the boom. I saw the bust. I watched our executive management team nose the plane into the ground. I then found myself working at Oracle as a product manager, where I've been for the last year. Having spent the last eight years immersed in high-performance and technical computing, the transition to Oracle was more than a little jarring.
Tomorrow is my last day with Oracle. Next week I will be starting work for Cloudera. I have to admit that I'm a little sad to be leaving behind fourteen years of relationships and product knowledge, but I'm also positively twitterpated to be starting something new, especially with a company as interesting as Cloudera.
My plan for this blog is to have a place to chronicle my transition and what it's like to work for a hot Silicon Valley startup. Maybe I've just watched Julie & Julia too recently, but this sounds like a good idea at the moment. And so it begins.
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