Re: Larry Ellison is stepping down as Oracle's CEO

From: Hans Forbrich <fuzzy.graybeard_at_gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 19 Sep 2014 13:51:59 -0600
Message-ID: <541C895F.6000202_at_gmail.com>



LOL Either way, "be careful what you ask for ... you may indeed get it in the end."

On 19/09/2014 1:46 PM, Kevin Closson wrote:
> no...he gets to try to convince processor engineers that the term
> "software in silicon" is not mumbo jumbo and that implementing CISC
> opcodes in SPARC still proves RISC was a good idea.
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> Back to PCMPGTD I go...and that *is* software in silicon
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> *From:* Hans Forbrich <fuzzy.graybeard_at_gmail.com>
> *To:* Steve Harville <steve.harville_at_gmail.com>
> *Cc:* oracle-l <oracle-l_at_freelists.org>
> *Sent:* Friday, September 19, 2014 11:54 AM
> *Subject:* Re: Larry Ellison is stepping down as Oracle's CEO
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> He owns 25+% of the company. I'd say he likely gets to choose.
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> But ... "fun stuff"? He gets to listen to techies arguing the merits
> of a semi-colon vs open-closed braces. perl vs python ...
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> On 19/09/2014 12:06 PM, Steve Harville wrote:
>> So he's keeping all the fun stuff :-)
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>> Steve Harville
>> <https://apex.appshosting.com/pls/apex/f?p=1076:steveharville>
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>> "Software and hardware engineering will report to Ellison."
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>> /Hans
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