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To: Lizzie Tudor who wrote (18235)	7/22/2003 4:32:55 PM
From: Michael Olin	Respond to of 19079

Chuck joined the company just weeks (days?) before the PeopleSoft tender offer was announced. He's been very friendly with Larry for years, but he's barely got any tenure as an Oracle employee. As far as the DoD and "super secret" stuff goes: When there was talk right after 9/11 about creating a national identity database, Larry was right out front offering to build it. He may have even suggested that he would give away the database licenses for free (after all, the contract to build and maintain the monster would make Haliburton's no-bid Iraq work look like pocket change). Oracle has a pretty substantial government business. Tom Kite, who is well known as an author and speaker, works for that division of the company. If I remember my corporate history, the first customer for the DBMS created by "Relational Software, Inc." (which was the name of the company at least through the mid-80's...I have a friend who still has his "certificate of completion" for training on the "Oracle Version 2" database, signed by Ken Jacobs of Relational Software, Inc.) was the CIA, and the project was code-named Oracle. -Michael