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
The code is pretty much overrated. It's more important to know such things as structure, features and functionality.
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It's a simple strategy. You take what you can't sell, you glue it into the operating system, and you raise the price of the operating system.
My first reaction is not if I live to a thousand years. But who knows?
Four years ago at Telecom 95, I made some people very angry when I said the PC is a ridiculous device. Now the Internet has pushed the PC off stage, and will eventually change, not just the industry, but our economies and cultures.
Every application we make works with the Mac today,
If we had made less than 12 cents in operating income, we would have had to warn. We didn't warn.
There is no more important platform for Oracle than HP and Itanium.
If an innovative piece of software comes along, Microsoft copies it and makes it part of Windows. This is not innovation; this is the end of innovation.
If I see Danny Hillis quoted as an expert on MPP one more time, I'm going to puke.
I'm right, and everyone else is wrong.
When you find errors in conventional wisdom-when everyone says A and A is not true-you gain competitive advantage. Only a few times do you have to find errors in conventional wisdom to make a living.
Bill Gates is the pope of the personal computer industry. He decides who is going to build.
Everyone thought the acquisition strategy was extremely risky because no one had ever done it successfully. In other words, it was innovative.