Safra Catz

Catz has the challenging job of repositioning the database company as a titan amid fierce competition from the likes of AWS and Microsoft. While its cloud business is smaller than those rivals’, Oracle has been spending more money building expensive data centers to help power the fledging unit. Time will tell if the efforts pay off, but until then Oracle continues to cruise along in a rapidly changing industry.

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