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 that's a very important asset and we want to preserve and invest in it.
We think of Microsoft as our major competitor in the database business, not IBM,
We think Microsoft is a very serious competitor going forward in the applications business. It's not simply going to be Oracle versus SAP.
There's only one program that's really important on your PC and that's an Internet browser. Once you have access to the Internet, you have everything computing has to offer,
My biggest concern is the stock market coming down,
Microsoft is already the most powerful company on earth, but you ain't seen nothing yet,
Microsoft is welcome to come investigate us and so are you guys,
Microsoft isn't good at security. We're good at that and I don't think sending a memo is going to help,
You'll see us controlling our costs, and one of the ways we control costs is by managing headcount, ... I don't think there is any company out there now that is not being asked to do more with less.
You'll see it in the newspapers. Oracle's strong preference is to do everything hostilely.
While BEA is a less attractive candidate, it doesn't mean we are running out of targets,
Well, about four years ago I made a provocative statement saying that the PC was a ridiculous device, ... You have to add software to your PC to make it work sometimes. The whole idea of putting a floppy disk into a PC and loading software is ridiculous. The whole idea of backing up the data on your PC is ridiculous.
We have a very close relationship with Dell.
We are fairly early on in consolidating enterprise software, ... It is early on, but it is a short game.