Mark Townsend Vice President, Database Product Management, muere a los 48 años producto de un infarto.
Mark Townsend era el responsable de liderar el equipo de investigación del área de productos de Oracle Database incluyendo análisis de requerimientos, planificación de versiones, entrenamiento, etc.
También era responsable por Oracle XE. Mark estuvo en Oracle desde 1991 y su especialidad ha sido las bases de datos por más de 15 años. Con regularidad se dirigia a Partners y clientes.
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All,
For those of you affiliated with the Oracle Database, you invariably knew Mark Townsend. We are sorry to inform you that Mark died unexpectedly today of a heart attack. He was 48.
We know that many user groups hosted Mark as a speaker in the past. He was well liked and well respected and always worked to help the user groups. We will miss him very much. As soon as we have more information about arrangements, we will inform you. We hope that you will share this with any members who worked with Mark in the past.
Thank you
Mary Lou