Not surprisingly, HP is suing to block Mark Hurd from joining Oracle.   Here’s the full complaint.  This one is tricky: if Hurd was fired, then he can logically do what he pleases, unless of course he was compensated in order not to take on a job at a competitor.  It’s not whether you or I think HP and Oracle are competitive, it is what his non-competition agreement says. continue reading...

Business Week - a magazine I used to read, still love, but don’t have time to subscribe to anymore (and quoted in twice!) - just picked its Business Person of the Year.

No, it’s not Steve Jobs.  Not Sergey Brin or Larry Page.  It’s not Rupert Murdoch or even Bill Gates.  It’s certainly not Mark Zuckerberg… or the dudes that invented Twitter. continue reading...