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
I hope they can amend the constitution to let Bill Clinton run again... I'm very fond of Bill Clinton personally... the world's going to miss him. He's gifted, bright, charming and charismatic.
What Microsoft is doing is patently illegal. Think about it. If you want to build computers, you've got to ask Bill's permission, ... If Bill wanted to triple the price on Windows, what would you do? You'd pay; you wouldn't have any choice.
Bill Gates is the pope of the personal computer industry. He decides who's going to build.
Bill Gates is the pope of the personal computer industry. He decides who is going to build.
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,
We have no large acquisitions in mind right now.
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.
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,
Our target has been low double-digit growth for databases, so we were not that far off.
I think that's going to be difficult to achieve,
Oracle's database and e-Business applications have become the software standard for the Internet, ... All 10 of the world's biggest Web sites use Oracle, as do 93 percent of the public dot.com companies. The faster the Internet grows, the faster we grow.
Oracle applications are ideally suited for rapid implementations because our e-business suite is complete and integrated -- no application customizations are required,