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Larry Ellison is an amazingly unprofessional titan of industry. He seems to have no bounds or restraints on how he uses his shareholder's company for his own pe
by ergo98 16y ago
Larry Ellison is an amazingly unprofessional titan of industry. He seems to have no bounds or restraints on how he uses his shareholder's company for his own personal missions.
Really, threatening the entire HP relationship because you want to hire a friend against all logical advice?
Absolutely extraordinary and unprecedented.
- rbanffy 16y ago> Absolutely extraordinary and unprecedented. Hardly surprising coming from Ellison. He has always been one of the most entertaining CEOs in this industry. I liked Scott McNeally better, but, sadly, his company became part of Oracle... Ballmer is entertaining too, but only in an embarrassing way. When Oracle acquired Sun they became direct competitors with IBM and HP. Bot IBM and HP's Unix offerings seem targeted towards legacy customers that are looking into alternatives to migrate to, even if it's Solaris on SPARC. It makes sense to hire Hurd and it makes less sense not to hire him in order to preserve your relationship with your competitor. What's HP going to do? Help Oracle on HP/UX users move to MySQL? To Windows and SQL Server? IBM, at least, can help Oracle users migrate to DB2, but HP is completely toothless.