Oracle

My immediate team is awesome, my current manager is awesome, and the awesomeness stops there.

Upper management lacks vision and strategy, and it appears they are more interested in acquiring customers via acquisition than in real product research and development. As it stands, providing value to their customers is an afterthought.

Larry Ellison has tuned out, and all management does now is buy companies, stitch together Frankensteins, and pitch it as Brad Pitt. It's pretty painful to watch all these two-bit VPs sink this company with the acquisition of crappy companies with crappy product, then turn around and try to sell it to customers.

If you ask most of your employees if they would recommend Oracle products, you would find out quickly and decisively they wouldn't.

You can't simply buy customers, and doing so is a gimmick and a losing proposition in the long term.

Invest in research and development. Dump ADF, WebCenter, and JDeveloper in favor of a completely new software stack built around NetBeans.

You don't have to do it right away, but you need to start the groundwork.

Start anew with focused teams on creating the best enterprise software stack from the ground up, using standards.

If you continue on the current path with substandard offerings, you will fail!