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
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 are clearly not No. 1 in middleware. You will see us do a number of things in that space, including acquisitions.
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,
We are optimistic about becoming number one in the middleware business,
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.
In a single step, Oracle becomes the number one CRM applications company in the world,
We highlighted 10 of our more than 450 customers that are currently live after just one year of the e-business suite.
We're very excited about this product. It's one of our biggest announcements for many, many years. It's the result of years of innovation and hard work.
I slept fine over the weekend, so conclude what you like. We're going to have a great year.
Every application we make works with the Mac today,
Rather than try to fight the open source trend, we think it's important to find ways to make it work to our advantage.
Our current quarter looks a lot stronger than our previous quarter, ... We're seeing some of the big deals coming back.
Our applications business is strong and getting stronger, ... Oracle's new e-Business Suite puts every aspect of a business -- marketing, sales, service, procurement, supply chain, manufacturing, accounting, human resources -- everything, on the Internet. All the applications in our suite are designed and engineered to work together, so customers buying the entire suite don't need to do any systems integration.
PeopleSoft is doing everything it can to prevent its shareholders from voting, ... If PeopleSoft's Board is so convinced that the J.D. Edwards acquisition is a great deal, why won't it let their shareholders vote on it?