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
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Maui reminded me of San Diego: beautiful, but crowded.
Game-playing is more fun when it's virtual because you're more successful. ... in reality, only one person gets to be LeBron.
Autonomy was shopped to us. We looked at the price and thought it was absurdly high.
We are optimistic about becoming number one in the middleware business,
We don't know, ... The fact is that the buying climate remains very tough. There aren't so many big deals around anymore.
What they're doing is not the least bit subtle. The result of all the innovation will be bankruptcy for Netscape,
We believe that our growth and PeopleSoft's decline resulted in part from an increase in our competitive win rate over PeopleSoft, and the fact that we are beginning to replace PeopleSoft at a number of major accounts,
There is no more important platform for Oracle than HP and Itanium.
We have no large acquisitions in mind right now.
We're missing an operating system. You could argue that it makes a lot of sense for us to look at distributing and supporting Linux.
I don't think Oracle and IBM want another Microsoft in Red Hat.
If I'm wrong? Were toast. We're out of business,
If we had made less than 12 cents in operating income, we would have had to warn. We didn't warn.