Dear Google: Learn how to party

May 15th, 2007

Dear Google:

I know you worked hard at your JavaOne party this year, but did you just copy Simula’s (aka devzzzzz) party from last year? You’re on top of the world - I expect more than bad beer and wine over the course of a few hours which you’ve paid 10x too much for! How will you attract your developers unless you flaunt your incredible chefs or tell us how awesome the 20% time is? The one thing that the party might have had going for it was exclusivity, but even then it was screwed up - you gave out invitations to anyone who asked. How are you going to keep the uncool people out?

Sadly, you are just a poor man’s Tangosol. They managed to get bought by Oracle and still have a party where someone can get a RedBull & Vodka. Where does that leave you?

Regards,

- Dan

8 Responses to “Dear Google: Learn how to party”

  1. netzooid » Blog Archive » JavaOne 2007 Wrap-up Says:

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  2. Deb’s Blog » Blog Archive » Open Source as in Free Beer Says:

    [...] never had a chance to write about the JavaOne social activities, but Carlos and Dan D summed them up pretty well. Posted by Debbie Filed in Uncategorized, Open Source, [...]

  3. Bill Burke Says:

    Well, it was exclusive enough, none of the JBoss guys were let in. Well, we did manage to sneek in through the back door and crash the party. At first I thought this was one of Google’s employment puzzles. If you could figure out to sneak in, you had the job. Nope, it really was more of, they didn’t want a bunch of drunks crashing their party.

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  7. B Says:

    In Australia the google party serves Victoria bitter. yik.

    In the USA, in Portland, home of some really great beers, and the google party serves Budweisser! yik yik yik.

    Free beer? you can’t pay me to drink US budweisser.

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