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Oracle creates "Super ACE" designation:
Oracle has announced a new "super
ACE" designation called
Oracle ACE Director. The lucky winners o the Oracle ACE
director list includes some of the best-known names in Oracle (click
here for full Oracle ACE Director list):
Yeddu Prasad
Venkat Tipparam
Srinivas Rao Polsani
Parameswar Das
Lonneke Dikmans
Harshad Oak
Geoffroy de Lamalle
Eirik Lygre
Basheer Khan
Andrejus Baranovskis
According to the Oracle web site,
becoming an Oracle ACE Director requires extra credentials above-and-beyond
those for the regular Oracle ACE:
- Acknowledged technical expertise
- Good communication skills; presentation experience
- Track record of evangelism
- Ability to commit to participation in an honorary (noncompensated)
capacity for 12 months
It's interesting to note the
requirement of a "track record of evangelism", which appears to
disqualify anyone who points-out any shortcomings of Oracle.
Also, note the requirement to participate in something (not
disclosed) for free.
A new ACE logo
The new
ACE Director logo is denoted by a "spade" (like in a deck of
cards), topped with what appears to be a light
green crown, sort of the "king" of aces..
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Oracle’s Mr. Potato Head approach to the Oracle ACE Director
logo has some interesting possibilities, especially since
Oracle has chosen to humanize the logo by adding a hat!
I imagine that it’s really some
sort of a human spade, with the letter “A” for a nose,
capped with his crown, the ace king, the straight flush of
logos!
But what should a spade king look like?
With a little more enhancement we can complete the
anthropomorphism, adding some eyes, a mouth, and a nice
conservative necktie.
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So, what do folks think of this
royal straight flush of a logo?
Comments from Oracle ACE's
Oracle ACE,
Dr. Tim Hall has some comments on the new Oracle ACE director
designation:
When I looked at the list
of people who are ACE Directors the cynic in
me came out in full force and here’s why:
- Every ACE Director
has expertise in “Oracle Fusion
Middleware”. There is not a single
person listed as an ACE Director from a
Database Management or Development
background. So knowledge of the
database, the product that made Oracle
great, is not worthy of any note.
- The majority of ACE
Directors are newly assigned ACEs, with
a few notable exceptions. So all the
people who were previously deemed worthy
of ACE-dom are not actually as worthy as
the new kids on the block.
- In my opinion, some
people stand head and shoulders above
the other people in the list of ACEs.
When I look through the list, none of
the real stars of the Oracle community
are listed as ACE Directors. It seems
people like Tom Kyte, Jonathan Lewis and
Steven Feuerstein (to mention just
three) don’t currently qualify as having
“a higher level of expectation in terms
of community activity”. Are you sure?
I’m sure that some of
these points will be rectified in the coming
weeks, and I don’t want to put other people
and their achievements down, but for the
moment, this whole re-jig of the Oracle ACE
program doesn’t look right to me.
UPDATE: I
subsequently read the top “Oracle ACE New”
story, which says,
“The Oracle ACE and Oracle Fusion Middleware
Regional Director programs have merged, with
the latter now being known as “Oracle ACE
Directors.” Furthermore, Oracle Database
experts (on management and app development)
are now eligible to serve as Oracle ACE
Directors as well.”
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