Larry Ellison
Larry Ellison
Lawrence Joseph "Larry" Ellisonis an American businessman who is co-founder of Oracle Corporation and was CEO from its founding until September 2014. He currently serves as executive chairman and chief technology officer of Oracle. In 2014, he was listed by Forbes magazine as the third-wealthiest person in America and as the fifth-wealthiest person in the world, with a fortune of US$56.2 billion...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionEntrepreneur
Date of Birth17 August 1944
CityNew York City, NY
CountryUnited States of America
We're very excited about this product. It's one of our biggest announcements for many, many years. It's the result of years of innovation and hard work.
We think Microsoft is a very serious competitor going forward in the applications business. It's not simply going to be Oracle versus SAP.
We think of Microsoft as our major competitor in the database business, not IBM,
We think that's a very important asset and we want to preserve and invest in it.
We think this year, this wonderful year, was our period of adjustment, ... We think that transition is behind us and top-line growth will look a lot better this coming year. Our pipeline is just over the moon.
You can't conform in business, ... If you adhere to conventional wisdom, if you do everything everyone else does, you're going to lose, The only way to get ahead, to really get ahead. is to be different.
Twenty minutes compared to never, that's a lot. Our customer, the (U.S.) Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), would get very upset (if) somebody looks in their database,
Autonomy was shopped to us. We looked at the price and thought it was absurdly high.
Maui reminded me of San Diego: beautiful, but crowded.
Lanai at one time grew 98% of the world's pineapples. But the world's pineapples are now grown in two places, Costa Rica and Panama, because no one wants to spend $45 for a pineapple from the United States.
People really criticize professional athletes going into the Olympics. People don't like change. A bunch of people don't like the Olympics now because we've added skateboarding... We're modernizing the sport.
I own a home in Kyoto, Japan actually on the temple on grounds in Nanzenji that is going to become a Japanese art museum.
Our goal is very simply to become the desktop for e-businesses.
We have most of the software industry running Autonomy.