Miscellaneous useful information

• A lot of Oracle runs of HP gear.
• SAP is the biggest reseller of Oracle in the world.
• IBM is the largest installer of oracle in the world.
• Microsoft is consumer oriented.
• IBM is business and government oriented.
• Larry E. voted for President Obama in 2008.
• Oracle culture is strong in sales and marketing
• Oracle is a HUGE recruiter of Engineers and Mathematicians
• Oracle hires graduates from Stanford, Caltech, MIT, Harvard, CMU (Carnegie Mellon) and so on in huge numbers
• Oracle is dominated by Engineering -- it is all about Engineering
• The country that produces a lot of engineers will rule the world
• Engineering department reports directly to Larry -- not sales, not marketing, or others