According to the Economic Times, Oracle’s Chief Security Officer Mary Ann Davidson is no longer with the company.
This may mean nothing. On the one hand, Davidson had been with the company a long time, having joined Oracle in 1988 AFTER a career in the US Navy as a civil engineer. So perhaps she just retired.
Then again, Larry Ellison is 81 years old, so people don’t HAVE to retire.
And it appears that Davidson’s departure wasn’t announced in a press release, but was buried in a June filing.
The one word associated with Davidson is the word “unbreakable.”
“[D]uring a 2002 interview with Businessweek, she described the challenges of making sure the firm’s products lived up to a marketing campaign envisioned by Ellison that touted the company’s products as ‘unbreakable’….She explained at that time, saying, ‘‘Unbreakable’ gives us something to live up to,’ adding, ‘It really does concentrate the mind wonderfully. The general thought is don’t embarrass the company. Nobody wants to be the group that makes us violate it.'”
(And yes, the red glow in the unbreakable oracle in the picture is intentional. If you have ever attended a San Francisco Oracle OpenWorld with hundreds of red and white banners, you’ll understand…)
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