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
Most people want to search private data much more often than they need to search public data.
If I'm wrong? Were toast. We're out of business,
We don't know, ... The fact is that the buying climate remains very tough. There aren't so many big deals around anymore.
All our acquisitions are designed to move us into the number one position. Because we believe the lion's share of profits go to category leaders.
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.
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.
It's a nontrivial process to supply certification. IBM is much better equipped to go through it (than many companies). I'm not sure I can say that for these other databases,
Its all wrong, ... Lots of little computers are a terrible idea, you can't see the big picture because it's been you know, sliced and diced and it's stored in so many different locations. We've fragmented this information. It's impossible to know what's going on.
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,
There is no more important platform for Oracle than HP and Itanium.
We have no large acquisitions in mind right now.
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.
What they're doing is not the least bit subtle. The result of all the innovation will be bankruptcy for Netscape,
In order to grow at this pace, there'll have to be a couple of acquisitions along the way. The tricky thing is to grow at this rate and maintain a 40 percent operating margin.