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
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.
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.
As far as J.D. Edwards, we're certainly interested, ... We've been looking at that closely as well. It's simply a matter of terms of the deal and price of the deal. We're keeping our options open there.
I can check the Oracle stock price with this, ... and then maybe decide to pick up some more stock with it.
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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My first reaction is not if I live to a thousand years. But who knows?