Oracle Wiki Experiment Failed
May 25th 2008vesterliOracle Wiki
As an experiment, I placed some of the description and the pro/con discussion from my upcoming paper comparing Oracle development tools on the Oracle Wiki. And just like when I posted something not unambiguously positive about Oracle WebCenter on the Wiki, I was immediately flamed by an Oracle product manager, and any trace of negativity edited out of one of my pages.
I was hoping that the Oracle Wiki could be the place where the collective wisdom of the whole Oracle community could crystalize. It would be of great value to have a place where everyone could easily find well-argued pro and con for each tool, helping everyone choose the right tool. But the sensitity of Oracle product management to anything faintly negative on the pages for “their” product makes this hard to achieve.