On Wed, Sep 8, 2010 at 9:36 AM, Scott Melton <[email protected]>wrote:
> Why should I stop this thread? It is on topic and thought provoking. > IMHO > I'm also puzzled why this thread should be stopped right here. Obviously, employees of either Oracle or HP should refrain from participating, but I don't see anything wrong with discussing this on an open mailing-list. Back to the topic, I have witnessed a few cases where key executives were hired but prevented from speaking or sharing information during meetings (basically, they sit at the meeting but they can only listen). This was enforced for a certain duration (typically a year). Whether the company enforcing this was being overly cautious or not is unclear to me. In this particular case, it's pretty obvious that Hurd knows a lot of insider information about HP and since Oracle is a competitor, him jumping ship could definitely be devastating to HP, so I definitely understand why HP is trying to stop this. Whether they will succeed remains to be seen, but HP's injunction makes sense to me. Of course, one might argue that they shouldn't have got rid of him in the first place, and nobody should be surprised that Ellison would jump on the opportunity to grab one of the few CEO's in the Valley that actually managed to turn his company around. As for the sexual harassment rumors... innocent until proven guilty, so I don't really see how they are relevant to the discussion. -- Cédric -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "The Java Posse" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/javaposse?hl=en.
