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Larry Ellison makes first-ever visit to Redmond to announce Oracle databases in Microsoft cloud

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Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella, left, and Oracle chairman and CTO Larry Ellison on a live stream from Redmond, announcing plans to expand their partnership with a new service called Oracle Database@Azure. ” Oracle, which is officially headquartered in Austin, Texas, was based until 2020 in Redwood Shores, Calif.,

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Oracle names new cloud infrastructure leader, signals broader ambitions to challenge Amazon

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Six-year Oracle veteran Clay Magouyrk is the new executive vice president in charge of Oracle Cloud Infrastructure, based in Seattle, reporting to co-founder Larry Ellison, executive chairman and chief technology officer. Photo by Marc Fiorito / Gamma Nine Photography, via Oracle.).

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Microsoft and Oracle, frenemies at last: What others can learn from their unlikely partnership

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Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella, left, with Oracle chairman and CTO Larry Ellison, announcing their recent partnership. ” That’s one of the lessons that business and technology leader Bob Muglia tells the companies he works with these days. I was talking to Marc Benioff, who was at Oracle at the time.

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Ellison slams AWS at Oracle Open World 2016

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Oracle CTO Larry Ellison criticises Amazon Web Services as a cloud database environment at Oracle Open World 2016, fleshing out earlier critique

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Amazon vet Dorothy Li joins trucking startup Convoy as CTO, says company is at ‘inflection point’

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The Seattle startup today named Li its new chief technology officer. Goodale was previously CTO; he will transition to a new role overseeing the company’s carrier marketplace. She most recently was vice president of BI and Analytics at Amazon Web Services, and previously spent time at Oracle.

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Tech Moves: Lighter Capital names new CEO; Amazon exec joins Uber as CTO; and more

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.” — Uber appointed Sukumar Rathnam as its new chief technology officer. He was an executive at PeopleSoft, which was acquired by Oracle in 2005. Long-time Uber CTO Thuan Pham stepped down earlier this year shortly before the company cut 25% of its global workforce. based Vettd.ai’s board of advisors.

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Oracle’s Larry Ellison looks to one-up Amazon, offering full cloud inside customer data centers

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Oracle founder CTO Larry Ellison. Oracle photo). Oracle unveiled a new service that promises to make all of its public cloud services available as a fully managed cloud region in its customers’ data centers, developed by an Oracle team based largely in the company’s Seattle engineering office.