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
People like you are supposed to expose this stuff, ... People like us are just trying to help. I never knew that we were doing any of this stuff, but if Microsoft is creating front organizations, I feel very good about bringing that information to the public.
We will have more than 4,000 engineers supporting PeopleSoft customers all over the world, and they can stay on PeopleSoft applications or migrate to Oracle applications at their discretion, ... It's entirely their choice. We will not shut down PeopleSoft products.
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.
We are clearly not No. 1 in middleware. You will see us do a number of things in that space, including acquisitions.
We used to be friends a long time ago, ... a good deal of social time with Bill. Less so recently.
While that may underscore our database growth in the fourth quarter, it bodes extremely well for database sales in the first quarter, and the second quarter and the third quarter, ... It's because we didn't sweep the table in the fourth quarter and we will never sweep the table again.
When I first came into this industry I was told that IBM was not someone against whom you would compete, ... That IBM was not a company. They were more like a country and a great country at that, and that I shouldn't even think of competing with IBM.
We've announced an Oracle Virtual Compute Appliance, a bunch of low-cost commodity servers running Linux, integrated in our case, with InfiniBand - connected with InfiniBand vs. the traditional Ethernet.
My favorite museums are things like the Frick Museum in New York and the Huntington Hartford in Pasadena where it's someone's home that you walk through.
I'm going to start these art museums that are basically converted homes, and I have one for modern art, and I have one for 19th century European art, and one for French impressionism. I've got Japanese.
We have most of the software industry running Autonomy.
Our goal is very simply to become the desktop for e-businesses.
I own a home in Kyoto, Japan actually on the temple on grounds in Nanzenji that is going to become a Japanese art museum.
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.