[Info-vax] OT: Larry Ellison takes retirement as CEO of Oracle

[Tom Adams]

On Thursday, September 18, 2014 10:18:14 PM UTC-4, JF Mezei wrote:
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> Lawrence J. Ellison on Thursday announced his retirement as chief
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> the way businesses use technology and made him one of the world�s
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> His departure, effective immediately, is one of the last exits of the
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> tech industry�s first generation of celebrity executives, who took
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> computers from the back offices of a few big institutions and into
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> Mr. Ellison will become executive chairman and will continue to work on
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> Oracle�s technology as its chief technology officer, the company said in
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> The current chairman, Jeffrey O. Henley, will become vice chairman. The
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> chief executive job will be shared by Mark V. Hurd, now co-president,
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> and Safra A. Catz, co-president and chief financial officer.
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> Anyone know whether this would make a difference to the odds of RDB and
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> Oracle support fotr VMS and in particular, port to the 8086 version of VMS ?

I'm having to port a Java applet because Oracle screwed up the JVM.  Porting it to GWT.  (OT, not about VMS, just had to vent.)