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* Oracle Corp. Executive Vice President Sandy Sanderson, 53, has decided to retire after taking a medical leave in August, adding to recent executive departures from the world’s largest database-software maker.

* Handspring Inc., the unprofitable Mountain View, Calif., maker of hand-held computers, said Chief Financial Officer Bern Whitney will resign, stepping down from a job he has held for the last three years, for personal reasons.

* Palm Inc., the biggest maker of hand-held computers, named Todd Bradley president of its devices group, a step toward eventual division of Palm into separate hardware and software companies.