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
Rather than try to fight the open source trend, we think it's important to find ways to make it work to our advantage.
I don't think Oracle and IBM want another Microsoft in Red Hat.
The majority of the people being laid off are Oracle employees, not Siebel employees.
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.
My impression is that we're gaining share, ... More and more people are using Oracle.
I think the applications space will be diverse and complex five years from now,
Despite what everyone says, our software is actually cheaper.
Our current quarter looks a lot stronger than our previous quarter, ... We're seeing some of the big deals coming back.
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,