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
Autonomy was shopped to us. We looked at the price and thought it was absurdly high.
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.
As far as J.D. Edwards, we're certainly interested, ... We've been looking at that closely as well. It's simply a matter of terms of the deal and price of the deal. We're keeping our options open there.
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.
I can check the Oracle stock price with this, ... and then maybe decide to pick up some more stock with it.
In the last few days, Oracle executives have had the opportunity to speak with the holders of a majority of PeopleSoft shares, ... Many of those shareholders indicated the prices at which they would tender their shares.
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,