The news that Oracle is buying Sun raised an incident from the dark recesses of my memory. In March 2000, I did some private flying from San Carlos airfield in California. It is located within direct sight of Oracle's headquarters and has the very apt ICAO designation KSQL. Anyway, for one of the flights I was returning to the airfield after a couple of hours touring the bay in my Piper PA28-181 Archer and was told that I was number one in the circuit to land - directly in front of Larry Ellison who was waiting also joining the circuit to land behind me. Anyway, being a Brit who was unfamiliar with US flight procedures I messed up my approach and caused some delay to the others in the circuit. It makes me wonder if Larry if the forgiving sort and will overlook a minor incident that took place nine years ago!
