"We near the eyewall, a solid circle with the inner rainbands converging into it....The winds climb rapidly, 90, 110, 125 knots, howling at the airplane from the left side, and the plane starts to buck....The plane shakes so violently that the numbers on the instrument panel are unreadable... and suddenly all is calm. We're through the eyewall and into the eye, and the view is breathtaking....Above us, clear blue sky; below, an angry sea whipped into a frenzy by howling winds. Occasionally, we see birds trapped in the eye."
The above is from a "Hurricane Hunter" as he flies through the violent eyewall into the calm eye of a hurricane.
Now read this BusinessWeek story about John Wookey. The calm eye of the storm at Oracle. Heck of a nice guy.
Look forward to hearing the progress Oracle has made so far on Fusion and in digesting all the mega-acquisitions - they have several briefings planned next week including one at the AMR Strategy 21 conference in CA I will be at.
