Here is a full article re the new board at AAPL.
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PARIS, Aug 1 (Reuter) - Oracle chairman Larry
Ellison said in a French newspaper interview published on Friday
that he would join Apple Computer Inc's board and
present a new management team next week led by Steve Jobs,
Apple's co-founder.
"Rumours of my interest are well founded," Ellison told the
financial newspaper La Tribune in an interview in California.
"On Monday we'll introduce Apple's new management team, and
I'm part of it," he was quoted as saying. The newspaper said the
announcement would be made at the Macworld trade show in Boston.
Ellison did not disclose the sum he was investing in Apple
but said it was a personal investment and not on Oracle's part.
He said Jobs, who returned to Apple three weeks ago after
previous chief executive officer quit, would take the top job
despite reports to the contrary in the San Francisco Chronicle.
"Apple needs to and will exist because you need other
players on the market. You can't let Microsoft
establish a monopoly," Ellison was quoted as saying.
He said Apple needed to focus on entry-level products. "The
market can't be made up solely of expensive and complicated
computers. Today you need equipment that's easy to maintain and
not too onerous for equipping schools and households."
The New York Times reported on Friday that Jobs was trying
to recruit several people, Ellison included, to join Apple's
board.
It said Jobs was reported to have told friends that he did
not want the CEO position although he appears for the moment to
be running Apple.
But the San Francisco Chronicle reported this week that Jobs
told employees of his Pixar film animation company that he had
declined offers to be CEO or chairman of Apple.
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