no...he gets to try to convince processor engineers that the term "software in silicon" is not mumbo jumbo and that implementing CISC opcodes in SPARC still proves RISC was a good idea. Back to PCMPGTD I go...and that *is* software in silicon ________________________________ From: Hans Forbrich <fuzzy.graybeard@xxxxxxxxx> To: Steve Harville <steve.harville@xxxxxxxxx> Cc: oracle-l <oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Friday, September 19, 2014 11:54 AM Subject: Re: Larry Ellison is stepping down as Oracle's CEO He owns 25+% of the company. I'd say he likely gets to choose. But ... "fun stuff"? He gets to listen to techies arguing the merits of a semi-colon vs open-closed braces. perl vs python ... /Hans On 19/09/2014 12:06 PM, Steve Harville wrote: So he's keeping all the fun stuff :-) > > > > > >Steve Harville > > > >>"Software and hardware engineering will report to Ellison." >> >>/Hans >> >>