Ashlee Vance / New York Times:
Oracle Chief Faults H.P. Board for Forcing Hurd Out — SAN FRANCISCO — Lawrence J. Ellison, the chief executive of Oracle, denounced Hewlett-Packard’s directors on Monday for forcing the resignation of the H.P. chief executive, Mark V. Hurd, who is a friend of Mr. Ellison’s.
Ashlee Vance / New York Times:
In School Systems, Slow Progress for Open-Source Textbooks — INFURIATING Scott G. McNealy has never been easier. Just bring up math textbooks. — Mr. McNealy, the fiery co-founder and former chief executive of Sun Microsystems, shuns basic math textbooks as bloated monstrosities …
Ashlee Vance / New York Times:
In the Singularity Movement, Humans Are So Yesterday — ON a Tuesday evening this spring, Sergey Brin, the co-founder of Google, became part man and part machine. About 40 people, all gathered here at a NASA campus for a nine-day, $15,000 course at Singularity University, saw it happen.