Hmm, seems like I was misled by the PR spin (not an uncommon occurrence). I hear you, we are a big company going through a split and we had many stories of our CEO, god bless his soul, doing similar things, e.g. grabbing a list of people and cutting randomly, cutting off crucial teams in the process. And we did have a Sun alumni who totally blew our company with his cool but ineffective sales mumbo-jumbo.

As much as I agree the wrongness of these decisions, I also see that some circumstances present a no-win scenario (Captain Kirk be damned), whatever you do there will be mistakes, but the important thing is to ACT! As far as I can see Ellison at least did that.