Oracle hires HP ex CEO
By Techgirl

It seems that Oracle is one company that will not hold sexual scandal against you when you apply for one of the top jobs at the software giant.

Oracle has just announced that Mark V. Hurd has joined the company as President and has also been appointed to Oracle’s Board of Directors.  Mr. Hurd will report to Oracle CEO Larry Ellison.  Hewlett Packard had to let go Mr. Hurd after it emerged that he had hired a Playboy model and R rated movie actress as a marketing consultant.  She complained of inappropriate behaviour by Mr. Hurd, and soon he was sacked.

Now Oracle has welcomed him with open arms. “Mark did a brilliant job at HP and I expect he’ll do even better at Oracle,” said Oracle CEO Larry Ellison. “There is no executive in the IT world with more relevant experience than Mark. Oracle’s future is engineering complete and integrated hardware and software systems for the enterprise. Mark pioneered the integration of hardware with software when Teradata was a part of NCR.”

Techgoss has previously linked to American reports in mainstream technology blogs about how the Oracle owner Larry Ellison is proud of his image as a playboy and has never hidden the fact that he even dated his own employees. 

But it seems that there are some sex scandals even too big for Oracle and its senior managers.  In Jan, 2010,  an ex mistress YaVaughnie Wilkins of Oracle President,  Charles Phillips,  spent hundreds of thousands of dollars in billboards which showed her and Charles in happier times.  Her idea of revenge was to humiliate him publicly by letting the world know about their affair.  When the media picked up the story in January, Oracle stood by its President.

But after the scandal broke, Charles Phillips had to resign from Morgan Stanley.  On Sept 6, 2010, he resigned as the Oracle President and from its Board of Directors as well.

Techgoss note:  Techgirl is a senior Tech journalist who reports on the IT, KPO and KPO Sectors for a leading media house.  In her spare time, she dabbles in satire in her blog http://techgirltalk.blogspot.com