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Charles Babcock, Editor at Large, Cloud

June 23, 2006

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Mike Olson
VP at Oracle
Interview by Charles Babcock

Mike Olson, Oracle VP

About the Author

Charles Babcock

Editor at Large, Cloud

Charles Babcock is an editor-at-large for InformationWeek and author of Management Strategies for the Cloud Revolution, a McGraw-Hill book. He is the former editor-in-chief of Digital News, former software editor of Computerworld and former technology editor of Interactive Week. He is a graduate of Syracuse University where he obtained a bachelor's degree in journalism. He joined the publication in 2003.

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