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 used to be friends a long time ago, ... a good deal of social time with Bill. Less so recently.
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.
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.
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.
We don't know, ... The fact is that the buying climate remains very tough. There aren't so many big deals around anymore.
We think this year, this wonderful year, was our period of adjustment, ... We think that transition is behind us and top-line growth will look a lot better this coming year. Our pipeline is just over the moon.
We are clearly not No. 1 in middleware. You will see us do a number of things in that space, including acquisitions.
We will have more than 4,000 engineers supporting PeopleSoft customers all over the world, and they can stay on PeopleSoft applications or migrate to Oracle applications at their discretion, ... It's entirely their choice. We will not shut down PeopleSoft products.
Joe brings perspective and experience not commonly found in Silicon Valley companies, ... In the last few years we have transformed Oracle Corporation into the leader in e-business. Joe will help us clearly and broadly communicate the benefits of e-business and e-government.
It also strengthens our No. 1 positions in the application business in North America. And it moves us closer to our goal of being No. 1 in applications globally.