>Side note, I'm surprised that Oracle is still running with Safra Catz and Mark Hurd as co-CEO's. I figured that that setup along with a very strong willed founder in Ellison, would cause some spectacular implosion at some point:)
It's because Safra Catz is a master operator while Hurd is a good IR and market-facing leader. Of course, Ellison is the visionary.
I read this as Oracle realizing that cloud is real and that they need to buy as many sources of cloud data silos as possible to build up their fortress of customer data.