Oracle's Mark Hurd hits pause as co-CEO, says he needs time to deal with health issues On Wednesday, Oracle said co-CEO Mark Hurd will take a leave of absence to deal with undisclosed health issues, an announcement that coincided with the publication of the tech titan's fiscal 2020 Q1 numbers. The database giant also publicly shared a message Hurd sent to Oracle employees. "Though we all worked hard together to …
This leave of absence for medical reasons being announced so publicly is ALMOST always "Corporate Code-Speak" for he's gotta leave for Chemo and Radiation treatments cuz he's at Stage-3 or Stage-4 and he PROBABLY has only a year left on this Earth at the most!
Cancer SUCKS! To beat it ya gotta pour everything you have into every treatment you can afford but at this time it USUALLY is at an advanced stage where things are looking pretty bleak and you are at the stage where you literally are resigned or scared enough to TRY EVERYTHING in terms of treatments.
NOT FUN!
CUZ you're truly staring Death in the Face at this stage!
Wish him the best in terms of a return to good health!
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Oracle, IBM, etc. are not going out of business, at least not soon.
Some companies due to legal requirements need ACID databases and once your locked in it's hard to move.
Once your in one cloud it's hard to integrate with another; at least at this time.
However Larry still seems to be more full of bravado than brawns. I don't see a pipeline to do more than keep pace with inflation adjusted for population. And his cloud is nothing more than a damp squib.
"Once your in one cloud it's hard to integrate with another; at least at this time."
But what if your cloud provider needs you to move because their cloud product is under performing revenue-wise and they need you to leave?
My money is on Oracle's cloud operation being called "Google" within 5 years. There is no way Oracle will use AWS and I'd be surprised to see Oracle using Azure with the whole Oracle vs MSSQL thing and given that a significant chunk of the existing Oracle cloud business is US government work that rules out a non-US firm.
It's possible that Oracle might choose IBM's cloud solution, but what's the point in moving to IBM if they're going to re-brand to AWS (again my guess) in a similar time frame?
he showered superlatives on his company's Autonomous Database, insisting that it takes the cost of human labor and the risk of human error out of the picture. The theft of financial and personal information from Capital One's AWS server, attributed to a misconfigured firewall, could not have happened with Oracle's Autonomous Database, he insisted. "It's not safe to go to any other database," he said.
It is if you start taking into account the tie-in and licensing games an organisation is exposed to when dealing with Oracle. They're several shades worse than Microsoft.
He left Hewlett-Packard following an inquiry into whether he violated the company's code of conduct in the course of interactions with a greeter at HP events and reality TV personality who filed a sexual harassment claim that was later settled privately.
I wonder if Oracle has various diversity schemes, to me, employing him after that sends quite a clear message about how much the company values diversity.
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