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Except he's a deeply technical product guy with 20 years experience managing the development of the worlds most profitable database. Its funny that Hacker News
by capkutay 8y ago
Except he's a deeply technical product guy with 20 years experience managing the development of the worlds most profitable database.
Its funny that Hacker News hates on Oracle, but their database is far ahead of the competition in a highly competitive market. Say what you want about their other products (that are indeed terrible), but that core database gets them billions in revenue for a reason.
- Alterlife 8y agoJust a small correction. He was the applications VP. That's business software such as Fusion / EBiz. He wasn't responsible for the database. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oracle_Applications https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oracle_Applications
- msubobcat 8y agoFalse, at the time that Kurian left he was head of all product development reporting directly to Larry Ellison.