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To: StanX Long who wrote (63402)	5/3/2002 12:07:12 AM
From: StanX Long	Respond to of 70976

Jumping ship at Oracle and Sun Top execs at Oracle and Sun are jumping ship. How worried should you be? May 2, 2002: 3:52 PM EDT By David Futrelle, CNN/Money Contributing Columnist eetimes.com NEW YORK (CNN/Money) - Oracle and Sun Microsystems have been battered this week on news that top executives are getting out while the getting is, well, not so good. The worry isn't just that these execs know something we don't. It is also that the departures will leave two of the tech world's leading personalities -- Oracle's Larry Ellison and Sun's Scott McNealy -- to their own devices, without anyone left to challenge them when they need to be challenged. The proper care and management of oversized personalities has long been a problem for the tech sector -- and few personalities are quite so oversized as Ellison and McNealy. Brash, egomaniacal Ellison, after all, once inspired a book titled "The Difference Between God and Larry Ellison" (the difference being that "God doesn't think he's Larry Ellison"). He was also the obvious model for the scheming software executive in the movie "Charlie's Angels." (See USA Today's take on the subject here.) McNealy, meanwhile, has one of the biggest mouths in Silicon Valley, filling his speeches with mean and often funny jabs at the expense of his company's competitors -- particularly a little company called Microsoft.