[oiuytgfrgh]

If he was really fired by HP for being crap at management then they should welcome a competitor hiring him.

It's difficult to think what trade secrets HP has that Oracle would want. That printer ink is actually made from baby unicorn tears and so it's price is totally justified?

[hga]

With Oracle's acquisition of Sun, they (in theory) compete heavily in enterprise-land. (In theory because Sun hasn't been too competitive for a long while, but in theory Oracle bought them to change that.)