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Lord vows to fight cybercrime laws
News Clayton cited the Perl scripting language, created by Larry Wall in 1987, as an example of a useful technology that could fall foul of the law. I can't see that any court is likely to interpret the law as warranting the conviction of Larry Wall...
[May 25, 2006, 16:05]
ShipHunt Demo
Downloads Larry Scheflin"Thanks for the quick response and for such a great sim.Randy Jones Rating: 5 out of 5"Addictive: This is an excellent game that requires not only strategy but timing as well. TESTIMONIALS RECEIVED VIA EMAIL ***NOTE: All comments are...
[December 28, 2003, 6:00]
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. As an Oracle customer, this announcement leaves me wondering what Larry's...
[June 9, 2003, 10:17]
First worm to hit Oracle databases found
News Trick or Treat Larry". 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...
[November 2, 2005, 10:30]
Cisco latest victim of downturn
News Chief financial officer Larry Carter told financial analysts to expect revenue growth in its third quarter to be "flat to down 5 percent" from second quarter's $6.75bn (£4.12bn) and fourth quarter to be "flat with Q3 [third quarter]".
[February 7, 2001, 7:40]
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]
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. Those comments did more than just fuel a great deal of online chatter and speculation; they...
[August 1, 2006, 10:10]
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]
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. The products and services produced by the company are merely a means to...
[March 7, 2006, 14:55]
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. Sun Microsystems chief executive Scott McNealy chided thousands of gearheads gathered at the OracleWorld...
[September 10, 2003, 9:10]
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]
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]
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]
Xmas home PC market looks nasty
News One insider who was willing to comment was Larry Smith, UK consumer division manager at IBM. Smith declined to put hard numbers on his comments but said that sales hadn't grown over last year's equivalent time space.
[December 4, 1997, 17:23]
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]
A Year Ago: Xmas home PC market looks nasty
News One insider who was willing to comment was Larry Smith, UK consumer division manager at IBM. Smith declined to put hard numbers on his comments but said that sales hadn't grown over last year's equivalent time space.
[December 4, 1998, 6:32]
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 judge seeks expert technology advice
News One of the more notable technology cases that involved the court designation of an expert was Judge Thomas Penfield Jackson's appointment of Stanford law professor Larry Lessig in 1997 to review issues in the Microsoft antitrust case.
[March 16, 2004, 9:35]
Sender ID loses supporters
News According to an analysis done by Larry Rosen, general counsel of the Open Source Initiative, Microsoft's Licence would require mail service providers incorporating Sender ID into their products to tell Microsoft about customers using it.
[September 3, 2004, 9:25]
