Oracle Corp. , Thursday said former White House spokesman Joe Lockhart left the world's No. 2 software maker last week, after only about six months on the job as chief spokesman.
Oracle spokeswoman Jennifer Glass said Lockhart resigned effective May 15 after it became apparent that his weekly commute to Silicon Valley from the Washington, D.C.-area had become untenable.
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Lockhart became communications director at Oracle last November, helping the Redwood Shores, California-based software maker land former President Bill Clinton as the keynote speaker for a high-profile company event in February.
Glass said there was no basis for a New York Post report Thursday that Lockhart and Oracle's outspoken founder and Chief Executive Larry Ellison never got along.
'It was completely amicable,' said Glass, who called Lockhart's resignation a 'joint decision' between Lockhart and Ellison.
Lockhart, who could not be reached for comment Thursday, had been White House press secretary under Clinton from 1998 until last September.
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