Oracle must decide quickly if Safra Catz really needs an exec to step up as her new co-CEO (ORCL)

Once Oracle and the tech industry finishes mourning the untimely death of Mark Hurd, the database giant has some big decisions to make.
For the last several years, Oracle has successfully run under a triumvirate, with CEO Safra Catz running finance, cofounder and CTO Larry Ellison running engineering/product, and CEO Hurd running Oracle's enormous sales and marketing machine.
Catz is more than qualified to run the company by herself. The question is: does she want to?
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