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
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.
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.
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.
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.
Most people want to search private data much more often than they need to search public data.
They are the only ones who destroyed the most innovative company in Silicon Valley in the past decade -- Netscape Communications, ... They paid people not to ship Netscape's browser. They're special.
I don't think Oracle and IBM want another Microsoft in Red Hat.
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 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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