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Mark Hurd, Oracle CEO, has died
CNN reports Mark Hurd, Oracle CEO, has died:
Mark Hurd, CEO of Oracle and former CEO of Hewlett-Packard, two of Silicon Valley's most storied companies, has died. He was 62.
Oracle Founder and Chairman Larry Ellison confirmed Hurd's death Friday.
"Mark was my close and irreplaceable friend, and trusted colleague," Ellison said in a memo to Oracle employees that was posted on Mark Hurd's personal website. "Oracle has lost a brilliant and beloved leader who personally touched the lives of so many of us during his decade at Oracle. All of us will miss Mark's keen mind and rare ability to analyze, simplify and solve problems quickly."
Hurd took a leave of absence from ORCL) a month ago for unspecified medical reasons. At the time, he said in a message to employees: "I've decided that I need to spend time focused on my health." He had been a chief executive and board director at the company since 2014. He served alongside Safra Catz, who also has the title of CEO. Ellison took over Hurd's responsibilities when he left.
Former Oracle Co-CEO Mark Hurd Has Passed Away
Former Oracle co-CEO Mark Hurd has passed away
Mark Hurd, who until last month was one of two CEOs leading the database software giant Oracle, has passed away at age 62, one month after telling employees in a letter that he was taking a leave of absence owing to health reasons.
Staffers, who were notified that Hurd died earlier this morning, have been offering their condolences on Twitter.
Hurd joined Oracle nine years ago, after spending five years with Hewlett-Packard, where he was CEO, president and, ultimately, board chairman, all roles from which he was pressured to resign in 2010 after submitting inaccurate expense reports that concealed his personal relationship with an outside consultant to the company.
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(Score: 3, Informative) by Uncle_Al on Saturday October 19 2019, @04:09PM (1 child)
Since I'm the Robert Miner Software Curator at the Computer History Museum I
know the story of his death from his sisters.
He was remodeling and didn't realize it was contaminated with asbestos.
As much as Ellison is a prick, he didn't kill Bob.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday October 19 2019, @06:55PM
It's a red herring like how MIT was trying to implicate a dead researcher in the Epstein case to throw off the investigating from their door step and had to fire RMS for defending him and standing in their way.