The hiring of Mark V. Hurd (pictured) as Oracle’s newest co-president arises in part from the former Hewlett-Packard chief’s close friendship with the tech titan Lawrence J. Ellison. It also represents the ascension of another deal maker to the top of the Oracle corporate pyramid: Mr. Hurd will be sharing the co-president position with Safra [...]
Hewlett-Packard on Tuesday sued Mark V. Hurd, its former chairman and chief executive, one day after he joined rival Oracle as co-president. In its lawsuit, filed in a California state court, H.P. argued that it was seeking to enforce confidentiality clauses Mr. Hurd had signed. (Read the lawsuit, helpfully posted by H.P., after the jump.) [...]
In naming Mark V. Hurd, the former chief executive of Hewlett-Packard, as Oracle’s new co-president, Lawrence J. Ellison, Oracle’s chief executive and largest shareholder, has put his money where his controversial mouth is, Ashlee Vance writes in The New York Times. Late on Monday, Oracle announced that Mr. Hurd had joined the company as a [...]
Lawrence J. Ellison, the chief executive of Oracle, denounced Hewlett-Packard’s directors on Monday for forcing the resignation of the H.P. chief executive, Mark V. Hurd, who is a friend of Mr. Ellison’s, The New York Times’s Ashlee Vance reports from San Francisco. Mr. Hurd stepped down Friday after a sexual harassment inquiry found that he [...]
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