I wish HP nothing but the best. I think HP is an icon. Those of us who had their careers in the Valley think of Dave Packard and Bill Hewlett as role models. We would love to be half as good as they were.

(138 m) long and reportedly cost over US $200 million to build. He had heard about the IBM System R database also based on Codd's theories and wanted Oracle to be compatible with it but IBM made this impossible by refusing to share System R's code. Although Ellison was raised in a Reform Jewish home by his adoptive-parents who attended synagogue regularly he remained a religious sceptic.

Lawrence Joseph "Larry" Ellison (born August 17 1944) is an American business magnate co-founder and chief executive of Oracle Corporation one of the world's leading enterprise software companies.