That statement: Oracle is deadly serious about competing with both HP and IBM at the highest levels for enterprise IT systems business. – The addition of Mark Hurd to the top level of Oracle’s corporate leadership is creating a lot of talk in many levels of business: in Silicon Valley, Wall Street — and even in legal circles.

Only a day after CEO and co-founder Larry Ellison hired the former Hewlett-Packard CEO to be a co-presiden…