One would think he was a software executive.
Microsoft tapped a top software executive at Apple to head up its data base applications business.
Mr. Ellison is by no means the only software executive making that argument.
Other software executives said the payoff from such a change might take years but would push the industry toward renewed competition.
Other software executives have already exposed the difficulty of trying to lead hardware's development.
The former president offered his personal and political assessments today to a group of software executives meeting in Boston.
It has been a troubled time for the software executive and world's richest man.
It came to him after hearing an Indian software executive explain how the world's economic playing field was being leveled.
The system for collecting property taxes in the city is weak, the software executives say.
Curry is married to Brian Ross, a software executive, whom she met in college.