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
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.
I don't think that's an unreasonable target, ... through a combination of acquisitions and organic growth.
In order to grow at this pace, there'll have to be a couple of acquisitions along the way. The tricky thing is to grow at this rate and maintain a 40 percent operating margin.
Our target has been low double-digit growth for databases, so we were not that far off.
The Independent Institute is neither independent nor an institute,
In the last few days, Oracle executives have had the opportunity to speak with the holders of a majority of PeopleSoft shares, ... Many of those shareholders indicated the prices at which they would tender their shares.
In most companies, one database replaces dozens of Exchange servers,
Guys were knocked down time and time again, but kept getting up to do what had to be done to keep us alive. It's a tough crew, but the guys were choked up. We were learning of people dying.
I am grateful to Ray for all of his efforts,
I have been working more, ... That's true, and the reason I'm working more is this is an extraordinary opportunity. My industry and in fact, every industry soon is going through this tectonic change.
Joe brings perspective and experience not commonly found in Silicon Valley companies, ... In the last few years we have transformed Oracle Corporation into the leader in e-business. Joe will help us clearly and broadly communicate the benefits of e-business and e-government.
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.
My impression is that we're gaining share, ... More and more people are using Oracle.