Oracle is as famous within the tech industry for its legal department as it is for its ubiquitous database software. The company's lawyer-heavy reputation was immortalized in this classic comic by Googler Manu Cornet: 

Cornet: 

At a media event at Oracle's Silicon Valley headquarters, co-CEO Mark Hurd told Recode's Kara Swisher that the switch to cloud computing — where customers rent functionally unlimited supercomputing power and applications from companies like Oracle — has required Oracle to rethink this approach, at least a little. 

(Swisher's full conversation with Hurd will be featured in a forthcoming episode of the Recode Decode podcast.)

Hurd uses the example of ride-hailing app Lyft, a flagship customer of Oracle's accounting and financial cloud software.