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
At one time, BEA was very high on our list. They're less interesting to us than they used to be. They also really don't want to be bought.
The Oracle salesperson gets credit for the Sun sale. I think the Oracle salesperson will appreciate the help of the Sun sales force in making quota.
Siebel's 4,000 applications customers and 3,400,000 CRM users strengthen our number one position in applications in North America and move us closer to the number one position in applications globally.
Most people want to search private data much more often than they need to search public data.
My impression is that we're gaining share, ... More and more people are using Oracle.
We 're not changing our strategy. We have an Internet strategy; we decided that four years ago.
We had a very, very large CRM development organization, so there are some moves there. We had more people than we need to develop CRM.
My first reaction is not if I live to a thousand years. But who knows?
No one has ever done this before. We think it will be a huge market and we think it will help drive database growth for years to come.
There's only one program that's really important on your PC and that's an Internet browser. Once you have access to the Internet, you have everything computing has to offer,
I slept fine over the weekend, so conclude what you like. We're going to have a great year.
Rather than try to fight the open source trend, we think it's important to find ways to make it work to our advantage.
Our current quarter looks a lot stronger than our previous quarter, ... We're seeing some of the big deals coming back.
Our applications business is strong and getting stronger, ... Oracle's new e-Business Suite puts every aspect of a business -- marketing, sales, service, procurement, supply chain, manufacturing, accounting, human resources -- everything, on the Internet. All the applications in our suite are designed and engineered to work together, so customers buying the entire suite don't need to do any systems integration.