https://albertcory50.substack.com/p/in-larrys-kingdom-part-2
A friend of mine worked for him at Sun, and said his coding standards were incredibly rigorous, but never silly.
The funny part was when I got an email from someone at Oracle, perhaps in legal, who wanted me to sign an "indemnify and hold harmless" statement for my code, code that I shared freely, received no compensation for, and had no control on how it was used by Oracle in their product -- Rrriiight. I replied "no thanks", and if Oracle wanted to use my software, they simply should comply with the BSD license that it shipped with, including the attribution clause.
memory fades. I don't remember how I did that anymore. Maybe we folded Oratcl into the OEM agent???
As you'll read in that article, the agent didn't work all that well, at first, and it was a particularly hellish time to be a manager.
There's also a 'ps' listing on page 50, with a user id 'aholser', if that rings any bells.
I haven't used Oracle since about 1998, and never Oracle's Enterprise Manager or whatever agent, so no idea how well it worked. I'll read your article.
by 2000, my colleague Dimitris Nakos had cleaned it up, probably. I don't know who 'aholser' might be.