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
We're missing an operating system. You could argue that it makes a lot of sense for us to look at distributing and supporting Linux.
We have no large acquisitions in mind right now.
There is no more important platform for Oracle than HP and Itanium.
What they're doing is not the least bit subtle. The result of all the innovation will be bankruptcy for Netscape,
The real highlight of our most recent quarter was the 57 percent growth in our applications business, and this merger is going to make that applications business bigger and stronger,
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.
We 're not changing our strategy. We have an Internet strategy; we decided that four years ago.
We believe that our growth and PeopleSoft's decline resulted in part from an increase in our competitive win rate over PeopleSoft, and the fact that we are beginning to replace PeopleSoft at a number of major accounts,