[…] Silicon Valley’s companies share the same entrepreneurial heritage, the cultures of Oracle, Cisco, Sun and Google et al are very different.
Google, for example, is known for its youthful entrepreneurial culture, characterized by encouraging employees to spend 10% of their work time on projects of their choosing.
Oracle is known for a hard-driving sales and marketing culture, epitomized by its track record of ambitious and sometimes aggressive acquisitions.
What Larry Ellison said about Cisco and Corporate Culture"