http:\/\/www.oracle.com\/us\/sun\/044498<\/a>.<\/p>\nThe first few hours were various Oracle and Sun execs talking about product strategies, job opportunities, and such. When they announced an area in which Oracle was hiring, they displayed a button on the current slide that said “We’re Hiring”.<\/p>\n
It looked like the Easy Button from Staples. I kept waiting to hear, “That was easy!”, but never did.<\/p>\n
The last hour was Larry Ellison making a brief presentation, and then he took questions from the audience. Ellison was poised, knowledgeable, and a very good extemporaneous speaker.<\/p>\n
Most questions were about Oracle Corporation policies or Oracle products, but a couple were not, and they were the most amusing:<\/p>\n
The first was whether he would run for the California governorship, and his answer was essentially that his family would disown him if he did that. The audience got a good chuckle out of that.<\/p>\n
The second was about a picture on-screen of the Oracle World Cup competition boat. There was a person precariously perched up high on the boat, and the question was, is that you, Larry? Now, the media likes to cast Ellison as an egotist, but that wasn’t apparent in his answer, “Oooooooh, nooooooooo, that’s not me up there!” (His tone of voice led me to believe that he’s afraid of heights.) “I’m just the navigator, which means I’m down in the belly of the boat, watching a computer screen and occasionally saying, oh, we’ve wandered 1 degree off course.” The audience enjoyed that one, too.<\/p>\n
Thank you, Oracle, for inviting me to this once in a lifetime event.<\/p>\n
Mary Elizabeth McNeely<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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