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Charles Babcock, Editor at Large, Cloud

June 23, 2006

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Photograph by Jeffery Newbury
Mike Olson
VP at Oracle
Interview by Charles Babcock

Mike Olson, Oracle VP

About the Author(s)

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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