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 highlighted 10 of our more than 450 customers that are currently live after just one year of the e-business suite.
Based on our current pipelines the entire management team believes that the overall year should be very strong, ... Specifically we expect that Oracle's software sales will grow faster this year than last. And margins should continue to improve as well.
A year from now, we'll have over 4,000 customers live on the e-business suite.
This is going to be an outstanding year for applications growth - don't let the 42 percent fool you.
There will be no new architecture for computing for the next 1,000 years.
I saw that we needed to grow but our top line wasn't growing, so we had to find other ways to grow the business. We had to reshape our business and acquire share in a non conventional way. But most tech leaders don't come out of a business background. They really have a parochial point of view. All they know are the go-go years of Silicon Valley. That's the environment in which they were raised.
If I were 21 years old, I would go into biotechnology or genetic engineering.
Five years from now, I don't know how I'll think.
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 used to be friends a long time ago, ... a good deal of social time with Bill. Less so recently.
Those that believe this is merely a cyclical downturn are mad. Our industry is going to mature and, as something matures, the rate of innovation does slow.
Twenty minutes compared to never, that's a lot. Our customer, the (U.S.) Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), would get very upset (if) somebody looks in their database,
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.
As the Internet grows, that's driving our top line, ... Last quarter, our software business grew 30 percent.