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 think Microsoft is a very serious competitor going forward in the applications business. It's not simply going to be Oracle versus SAP.
The Oracle salesperson gets credit for the Sun sale. I think the Oracle salesperson will appreciate the help of the Sun sales force in making quota.
We are clearly not No. 1 in middleware. You will see us do a number of things in that space, including acquisitions.
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.
I am grateful to Ray for all of his efforts,
Most people want to search private data much more often than they need to search public data.
My impression is that we're gaining share, ... More and more people are using Oracle.
My first reaction is not if I live to a thousand years. But who knows?
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.
If we had made less than 12 cents in operating income, we would have had to warn. We didn't warn.
Siebel's 4,000 applications customers and 3,400,000 CRM users strengthen our number one position in applications in North America and move us closer to the number one position in applications globally.
We 're not changing our strategy. We have an Internet strategy; we decided that four years ago.
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.
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,