Some people - especially those who are minted and very senior - like to, or need to, take sabbaticals and time off.
It's also possible that he's fighting a very private health battle with an uncertain prognosis.
Oracle's cloud guru Thomas Kurian has reportedly taken extended leave from the firm. Kurian, who has been with Big Red since 1996 and leads a team of 35,000 engineers across 35 countries, told colleagues the news in an email. "By now many of you may have heard that I have decided to take extended time off from Oracle," he …
<quote>It's also possible that he's fighting a very private health battle with an uncertain foreboding prognosis.</quote>
He might be facing a situation where he has been told that you have X amount of time left; and he plans to step aside to enable his team to continue forward, and he can make the best of the time left.
In any regard, I hope I am wrong on that one.
Leisure suit Larry left a message, like a revolver loaded with one bullet, on his desk.
He runs a department that Oracle really wants to push, yet has to hide the results of because they are so bad. Oracle is not known for being nice to failures. Or anyone else for that matter.