Oracle Co-CEO Mark Hurd Passes Away (cnbc.com) 54
Mark Hurd, who was co-chief of Oracle, one of the world's top business-software firms, until he stepped aside last month for health reasons, died Friday. He was 62. From a report: "Oracle has lost a brilliant and beloved leader who personally touched the lives of so many of us during his decade at Oracle," Oracle chairman Larry Ellison wrote. "All of us will miss Mark's keen mind and rare ability to analyze, simplify, and solve problems quickly. Some of us will miss his friendship and mentorship. I will miss his kindness and sense of humor." Hurd announced a leave of absence from Oracle in September due to unspecified health reasons. Oracle stock had gone up about 37% since he and Safra Catz were appointed as CEOs in September 2014.
I will never forgive this guy (Score:4, Interesting)
for what he did to HP.
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You blame him for not strangling Carly?
this is not said often enough (Score:2, Informative)
As a former HPE employee, good riddence to a 25-million-dollar-golden-parachute grabass.
People these days try to hard to be polite once someone's dead. They overlook who they were and don't call out scumbags. And that's why the world is in the state it is today.
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for what he did to HP.
Doing great things for the company?
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for what he did to HP.
The real question is whether you will forgive me.
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Not just "No", but "No way in Hell, NO".
62? (Score:1)
So it's true Oracle feeds on lifeblood?
RIP (Score:2)
Story fails to mention mass layoffs (Score:4, Informative)
Story failed to mention the how much of an asshole he was and how much mass misery in his wake. I don't recall how many total people he gave the axe to over at HP but he was certainly responsible for laying off well over 10,000 people. He also helped to destroy what was left of the old culture at HP that had somehow survived Carly Fiorna. The world is a better place without him and he can burn in hell.
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He established expectations for everyone at HP and those who did not meet them were dismissed. That's how the world works.
That he did !
If you can't do the job, you don't get to keep the job.
Correction:
If you can't do the blow job, you don't get the job.
was his mantra.
Re:Story fails to mention mass layoffs (Score:5, Informative)
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Don't forget about the whole scandal which caused his firing - https://www.businessinsider.co... [businessinsider.com]
He didn't break any rules or laws. Just moral values.
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Don't forget about the whole scandal which caused his firing - https://www.businessinsider.co... [businessinsider.com]
He didn't break any rules or laws. Just moral values.
Such a low bar. That doesn't make him praiseworthy.
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Didn't break rules? He tried hiding thousands of dollars of expenditures and lied when asked directly about it.
Oracle's HUGE management problems (Score:2)
Oregon settles bitter legal fight with Oracle for $100 million [oregonlive.com]
Oregon Reaches $100 Million Settlement With Oracle [opb.org]
Another of the many problems with Oracle:
Judge Blasts Oracle's Attempt To Overturn Pro-Google Jury Verdict. [slashdot.org]
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Re:Story fails to mention mass layoffs (Score:4, Interesting)
Story failed to mention the how much of an asshole he was and how much mass misery in his wake. I don't recall how many total people he gave the axe to over at HP but he was certainly responsible for laying off well over 10,000 people. He also helped to destroy what was left of the old culture at HP that had somehow survived Carly Fiorna. The world is a better place without him and he can burn in hell.
Always sucks to get laid off but leaders do what they have to do to keep a company afloat and profitable. Sometimes it means hard decisions by parting with good employees. Other times it's just cutting the slack. All big companies have done this in the past 20 years as their growth stops and numbers have to be brought back in line. Had this not been done you might be saying that all of HP lost their jobs.
Re:Story fails to mention mass layoffs (Score:5, Insightful)
Bollocks. Mass layoffs are not an inevitable part of the business cycle. They're a way to boost quarterly results long enough for the staff shortage to become someone else's problem.
Re:Story fails to mention mass layoffs (Score:4, Insightful)
Second layoff was a shocker. We grew at something like 30%, but wall street wanted 40. Lost some good people in that one, fortunately I wasn't one of them. The third layoff was much the same, not to mention morale was in the toilet by now. Keep in mind we were still growing quarter by quarter. Hey, we were a defense contractor in the Reagan era converting 50's military tech to microprocessors.
What happened to the company? It started in '81, first layoff in '86/'87, second 6 months later, third 6 months after that. Then the good people started moving on, I got caught in the 4th. By this time the company was shrinking, they didn't have enough engineers left to support existing products, let alone develop new ones. They merged with someone else in 80/90.
Me? After the second layoff I realized that without a college degree I'd never get another job (self taught Z-80 programmer as a teenager). So I started going to college full time while working full time. That lasted 1 semester, then I went part time college.
Granted, I don't have an MBA. But I honestly think that company would have done great had wall street been happy with 30% growth and not forced several layoffs on a young, fast growing company.
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Always sucks to get laid off but leaders do what they have to do to keep a company afloat and profitable. Sometimes it means hard decisions by parting with good employees. Other times it's just cutting the slack.
It's funny how often that doesn't involve the CEO taking a slight reduction in his retirement payout. But I guess they have to do what they have to do, which is make sure the lower echelons take the hit.
The best part is their justification: (Score:2)
"Because I take the risks and make the hard decisions."
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Have you Hurd? (Score:1)
Mark died.
Not a fan of his since his tenure at HP ended, but 62 is too young for anyone.
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What a ridiculous claim. Really. Hitler died too soon? (Sometimes a Godwinism [wikipedia.org] is just a ridiculous Godwinism, and sometimes it makes a completely valid point as you see here.)
swing and a miss (Score:5, Funny)
Love your tagline! (Score:1)
Wish I had modpoints just for that...
but the text above it... hmmm
(not a fan of Larry, but just don't like wishing death upon anyone)
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Your right, that was pretty petty of me to even joke about someone dying.
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And because now I have mod points, and commented on this thread, I can't use them.
One to add to the mix, tuning in to NPR the other day, heard a political interview, and several times during the interview they asked leading questions...
and once, as the person was responding, the interviewer cut in, and transitioned the answer to a long, ultra-liberal twisted response FOR the person being interviewed.
Gee... you didn't want to get a BIASED opinion out there, did ya? (sarcasm pretty heavy here.)
Tried pointing
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I tried to mod this insightful, not as funny. But to tell you this, my mod points are now going to vanish. *sigh*
Hurd, the news (Score:2, Interesting)
Who was widely considered a turd
Not by Ellison, no
But by others loathed so
He was buried six deep in la merde.
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Don't kid yourself, if you walk into my store and if I know you're loaded, you better believe I'm going to figure out a way to charg
Cause of death (Score:1)
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A much longed for one, by those of us who hate the thieving scum at Oracle. May Larry join him soon.
Dear beloved leader ... and chairman Larry? (Score:2)
I smell a very black humor joke in this ... :D
One question (Score:1)
If I had the chance to, right now, ask Hurd one question, it'd be: "so, what's Hell like?"
PSA: It's not right to celebrate (Score:1)
so don't celebrate
of what? (Score:1)
What did he die of? 62 is not really that old.
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