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0 pointscapkutay7y ago0 comments

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.

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Alterlife7y ago· 1 in thread

Just 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

msubobcat7y ago

False, at the time that Kurian left he was head of all product development reporting directly to Larry Ellison.

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