Shortly before Oracle Corp. Chief Executive Larry Ellison gave his keynote speech about a new cloud-computing effort at his annual customer conference here in October, a surprise guest came on stage: Sting.
“I’m very impressed by the great technology produced by this company,” the superstar singer told 46,000 techies, for whom he performed later that night.
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