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The head of Oracle Health engineering has abruptly left the business, according to reports. Don Johnson, executive vice president, swiftly departed the software and cloud biz after little more than six months in the role. Business Insider said two sources had told the publication of Johnson's departure. We have asked Oracle …

  1. oiseau
    WTF?

    Really?

    Oracle founder and CTO Larry Ellison later announced he was planning to build "a unified national health records database" on top of "thousands of separate hospital databases."

    The last thing the world needs is something like this.

    And if that were no enough, in Oracle's hands.

    Just wait for it:

    With respect to the NHS, Oracle founder and CTO Larry Ellison later announced ...

    I tell you, we're all doomed.

    A.

    1. Anonymous Coward
      Anonymous Coward

      Re: Really?

      "unified national health records database "

      Isn't that just a big database?

      Something a large database company could/ought to be able to deliver?

      1. Anonymous Coward
        Anonymous Coward

        Re: Really?

        A large database company motivated by profit and an egotistical CEO operating in a market where the health data held could be VERY profitable for health insurers reluctant to part with the money customers pay in premiums?

        What could possibly go wrong?

        And if that doesn't worry you, Larry already owns a big chunk of an island, complete with volcanoes. I'm not saying there is a secret base but....

  2. trevorde Silver badge

    What Don did next...

    CEO of Twitter (or a role on 'Miami Vice')

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