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To: BDR who wrote (27975)	7/15/2000 1:55:55 AM
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sjmercury.com Oracle: only room for one... Former Oracle president and COO Ray Lane said his recent departure from the database colossus was more of an abrupt resignation than the "long-planned transition" it was heralded as. Lane's decision to leave the company -- which surprised almost everyone in the valley -- was announced in late June in a brief statement that offered no reasons for the resignation. Oracle CEO Larry Ellison described Lane's "retirement" as one that was both expected and amicable. Thursday, in an interview with the San Francisco Chronicle, Lane volunteered that he had abruptly quit the company after the megalomanic Ellison stripped him of many of his duties. Lane added that his departure "wasn't amicable" and ``doesn't sit well,". "I just didn't fit" within Ellison's new hierarchy, he said. "I've never seen a CEO micromanage every decision at a company." After that interview Ellison "essentially confirmed" Lane's assertions and suggested that Lane's job had simply become "too small for him".