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Larry Ellison Will Step Down as CEO of Oracle, Will Remain as CTO

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Re: Larry Ellison Will Step Down as CEO of Oracle, Will Remain as CTO

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Post by linuxfault »

chollida1 wrote: post #6

Interesting that they name Co-CEO's in Catz and Hurd. I wonder how that will work, especially given Hurd's "tough to work with" reputation. Interestingly Ellison will be the CTO. This could be a shit show with 3 people trying to run the show! I mean does anyone really expect Larry Ellison to start taking marching orders. Will be interesting to watch the short interest on this company! I think the two headed CEO is wh…

Safra has been the driver of this car for a long time now anyway. Larry is more of a figure. Hurd is an asshole.

Re: Larry Ellison Will Step Down as CEO of Oracle, Will Remain as CTO

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Post by wuliwong »

MagicWishMonkey wrote: post #17
turar wrote: post #3

Co-CEOs? I only know one company that had co-CEOs, and that didn't work out well for them.

Yep, it's like Hurding Catz. Ok I'll show myself out.

well done. LOL someone voted this down??? I never understood the anti-humor folks on HN.

Re: Larry Ellison Will Step Down as CEO of Oracle, Will Remain as CTO

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Post by keebEz »

justinph wrote: post #40

What is with the capitalization on the headline on Recode? I read it and thought, who is "Will Remain"? It should be: Larry Ellison will step down as CEO of Oracle, will remain as CTO Headline capitalization is pretty easy: Capitalize the first word, then any proper nouns. That's it.

It is correct according to most commonly used guidelines for headline capitalization. You were describing how to capitalize stuff in a paragraph, not a headline.

http://www.grammarunderground.com/capitalization-of-headline...

Re: Larry Ellison Will Step Down as CEO of Oracle, Will Remain as CTO

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Post by joelrunyon »

jsmthrowaway wrote: post #32
mhurron wrote: post #7

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Busy producing an Iron Man suit? Running Oracle is getting in the way of being a Bond level supervillan? There could be lots of reasons.

What is it about Ellison that makes people say Bond villain, beyond the yacht and such? You're not the first person I've heard say that. (I'm not critiquing, I think it's amusing.)

He owns an island.

Re: Larry Ellison Will Step Down as CEO of Oracle, Will Remain as CTO

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Post by Apocryphon »

chollida1 wrote: post #6

Interesting that they name Co-CEO's in Catz and Hurd. I wonder how that will work, especially given Hurd's "tough to work with" reputation. Interestingly Ellison will be the CTO. This could be a shit show with 3 people trying to run the show! I mean does anyone really expect Larry Ellison to start taking marching orders. Will be interesting to watch the short interest on this company! I think the two headed CEO is wh…

Ellison will still be around? This sounds like when Putin and Medvedev swapped being president and prime minister of Russia.

Re: Larry Ellison Will Step Down as CEO of Oracle, Will Remain as CTO

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Post by ChuckMcM »

Demonstrating once again that tech companies really don't "get" succession planning :-) I'm kind of half joking, if you look at a bunch of 'old school' BigCorps, the progression is (CEO->Chairman, SVPx -> CEO, VPx -> SVPx) and then the Chairman of the board retires and the CEO takes on both roles Chairman and CEO, priming the pump for the next cycle.

Co-CEOs have so far been an experiment in disaster, something about not having an ultimate authority seems to really crimp organizations. I wish Oracle well but they have a lot of challenges to overcome, if I were a share holder I wouldn't be all that pleased with this arrangement as it seems to basically leave all the same people in place with all the same problems (Amazon/Google EC2/GCE, MySQL vs NoSQL vs expensive Oracle, Cheap Clusters with High Reliablity vs Expensive Servers, Etc.)

Re: Larry Ellison Will Step Down as CEO of Oracle, Will Remain as CTO

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Post by marcosdumay »

lclarkmichalek wrote: post #35
jsmthrowaway wrote: post #32

Earlier quoted context omitted.

What is it about Ellison that makes people say Bond villain, beyond the yacht and such? You're not the first person I've heard say that. (I'm not critiquing, I think it's amusing.)

He doesn't seem to like free software and Oracle charges a lot for their software. Literally Hitler

The problem is not that it's expensive. What is wrong with Oracle's software is that people buy it mostly because migrating away is more expensive. And Oracle works hard to ensure that things will stay that way, even if that requires reducing the quality of their software.

Re: Larry Ellison Will Step Down as CEO of Oracle, Will Remain as CTO

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Post by traek »

justinph wrote: post #40

What is with the capitalization on the headline on Recode? I read it and thought, who is "Will Remain"? It should be: Larry Ellison will step down as CEO of Oracle, will remain as CTO Headline capitalization is pretty easy: Capitalize the first word, then any proper nouns. That's it.

>Headline capitalization is pretty easy: Capitalize the first word, then any proper nouns. That's it.

Not really accurate. Some publications use sentence case for headlines, but most publications use (and most style guides suggest) title case.

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