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Ellison accuses IBM of 'creative accounting'
News As the race for database and application server markets heating up, Oracle chief executive Larry Ellison has accused IBM of using "creative accounting" practices to inflate its market share and sales figures.
[December 7, 2001, 9:59]
Oracle will not sell PeopleSoft products
News Oracle chief executive Larry Ellison heightened fears among PeopleSoft customers with comments that indicated a short life for PeopleSoft products if the buyout happens. Although we will not be actively selling PeopleSoft products to new customers...
[June 9, 2003, 10:17]
People power may derail Oracle's ambitions
News Oracle chief executive Larry Ellison sent shockwaves through the industry last month when he launched a hostile bid for PeopleSoft, just days California-based PeopleSoft announced plans to acquire J.D.
[July 11, 2003, 8:42]
PeopleSoft CEO resigns
News The events included a threat by Duffield to sue Oracle CEO Larry Ellison for defamation over information released by Oracle about Duffield's stock sales. In a letter to Ellison, Duffield defended his stock sales last autumn -- a period when...
[December 29, 2004, 8:55]
First worm to hit Oracle databases found
News The business software maker faces criticism about its security practices and has a shaky relationship with security researchers, but chief executive Larry Ellison — referenced in the subject line of the worm code email — still likes to tout the...
[November 2, 2005, 10:30]
Ellison 'determined' to buy PeopleSoft
News Oracle chief executive Larry Ellison repeated on Tuesday his determination to acquire rival PeopleSoft, but was cagey about whether he would raise the offer price of his hostile takeover bid. Ellison dismissed comments made last week by PeopleSoft...
[September 10, 2003, 8:35]
McNealy criticises 'jalopy' IT culture
News The Sun chief's speech and his comparison of IT to the automotive industry echo comments often made by Oracle chief executive Larry Ellison. Ellison has a favourite line he uses: "Each child should be unique, but not every computer.
[September 10, 2003, 9:10]
Oracle to distribute Red Hat?
News Comments by Oracle chief executive Larry Ellison have sparked speculation across Wall Street that the database giant could become a Red Hat distributor. In an interview with Forbes published last Thursday, Ellison reiterated statements made to the...
[August 1, 2006, 10:10]
The one thing Larry's cash can't buy
Leader Larry Ellison is likely to come in for some flak from open source romantics who will take umbrage at comments he made during Oracle's OpenWorld conference in Japan this week. Ellison claims that IBM, Intel and Oracle developed Linux - plenty will...
[March 7, 2006, 14:55]
Layoff whispers get louder at Oracle
News Despite chief executive Larry Ellison's denial on Wednesday that the company would announce additional layoffs, analysts continue to cite sources who indicate the company is cutting jobs. Ellison's comments gave Oracle's beleaguered stock a quick...
[June 10, 2002, 7:32]
Ellison: Oracle will save additional billion
News Oracle chief executive Larry Ellison Tuesday said his company is on track to save another $1bn this year by using its own business software. Ellison made his comments at Oracle Apps World, a company-sponsored trade show being held in Paris.
[February 13, 2001, 15:51]
Ellison slates computers and pushes biotech
News If Oracle's Larry Ellison could do it all over again, he'd don a white lab coat and research a cure for malaria. Ellison's viewpoints on biotechnology and the future of computing were some of the more unique comments in a speech that many Oracle...
[February 22, 2001, 9:19]
Oracle: Corporations not communities key to open source success
News Open source projects need big companies to thrive, Oracle's chief executive Larry Ellison reportedly said at a conference last week. The free software community is likely to strongly disagree with many of Ellison's comments.
[March 7, 2006, 9:20]
Oracle rules out raising bid
News Time will be on our side," Phillips said, echoing comments made by Oracle chief executive Larry Ellison in July. An Oracle executive said on Wednesday that it's unlikely the company would raise its $7.25bn (£4.56bn) unsolicited bid for rival...
[September 11, 2003, 13:00]
Users debate Oracle's claims about 11i
News During Oracle's recent AppsWorld conference, Chief Executive Larry Ellison said only a modest amount of systems integration work is needed to install 11i. Langille's comments won't please Oracle management.
[March 20, 2001, 7:58]
Oracle lays off PeopleSoft staff by post
News PeopleSoft fought the deal for more than 18 months in a bitter battle marked by two court struggles and public vows by Oracle chief executive Larry Ellison to shut down PeopleSoft and discontinue its products.
[January 14, 2005, 8:15]
Oracle details fate of Sun software
News Oracle will be the only company that can engineer an integrated system — applications to disk — where all the pieces fit and work together so customers do not have to do it themselves," Oracle chief executive Larry Ellison said in the company's...
[November 3, 2009, 7:10]
IBM rejects riding to PeopleSoft rescue
News PeopleSoft chief executive, Craig Conway, reportedly told a US newspaper "this game is dead;" a position hotly disputed by his Oracle rival, Larry Ellison. He added that Oracle had a skewed view of its database products, saying that while Ellison's...
[August 5, 2003, 10:10]
Oracle-PeopleSoft: One year on
News That concern was particularly valid, given comments that Oracle's chief executive, Larry Ellison, made shortly after announcing plans to launch a hostile takeover attempt of PeopleSoft. Ellison touted plans to discontinue PeopleSoft products and...
[January 12, 2006, 13:00]
McNealy, Ellison call for Microsoft bust-up
News Appearing separately in Los Angeles and Las Vegas, Larry Ellison of Oracle and Scott McNealy of Sun Microsystems stumped on behalf of stiff remedies against the software giant. Ellison and McNealy regularly lob verbal bombs at Microsoft, but their...
[November 18, 1999, 8:42]
