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Comdex: Ellison Ups The Ante
News CEO Larry Ellison issued a second $1 million (£625,000) challenge designed to compare the performance of Microsoft Corp.s SQL Server 7.0 to attendees of his Fall/Comdex keynote tonight. Last week at Oracle OpenWorld, Ellison offered some early...
[November 17, 1998, 9:02]
Ellison's Call: Upgrade, Upgrade, Upgrade
News Oracle chief executive Larry Ellison has a simple message for the thousands of users of the company's business software: upgrade. Ellison reinforced this theme, calling 11i "the largest collection of applications software produced by a single...
[April 10, 2002, 10:37]
Ellison: Who Needs Fat Clients?
News Gates or Ellison? Ellison also declined to comment on which embedded operating system resided in the Compaq appliance, other than to say it was "anonymously" developed by Oracle and an unnamed partner.
[November 14, 2000, 8:07]
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. During a question and answer period with journalists, Ellison was asked if he would ever run for political office.
[February 22, 2001, 9:19]
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 also said he was concerned by recent reports that Microsoft's...
[November 18, 1999, 8:42]
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. In the very first year we put in [Oracle's 11i applications software], we've saved $1bn," said Ellison.
[February 13, 2001, 15:51]
Ellison: We'll Double Oracle's Size
News Larry Ellison is going for goal. In order to grow at this pace, there'll have to be a couple of acquisitions along the way," Ellison said during a press conference Wednesday at Oracle OpenWorld. And the PeopleSoft acquisition has already...
[September 22, 2005, 9:05]
US Report: Ellison Says Gates Is A 'liar'
News Speaking at Harvard University's Conference on the Internet and Society, the heavily partisan Ellison, prone to hyperbole and dependably colourful, also extolled the merits of Web-based education and admitted that Oracle has conducted merger talks...
[May 27, 1998, 9:48]
Ellison: Don't Believe PeopleSoft 'lies'
News Larry Ellison has said PeopleSoft customers should not believe the "lies" that are being spread by PeopleSoft executives, which claim Oracle will force them to migrate to Oracle's E-business suite products, should the hostile bid be successful.
[June 23, 2003, 13:16]
Ellison Ups Ante In War Of Words
News Oracle chief executive Larry Ellison on Tuesday predicted PeopleSoft would post lacklustre financial results during the next several quarters; a weakness that could sway support for Oracle's hostile takeover.
[July 16, 2003, 10:40]
Ellison Leads By Example
News With so many things on his mind these days, coming up with fresh material for a keynote speech didn't appear to be on Oracle boss Larry Ellison's list of priorities this week. Ellison virtually recycled his speech from last year's conference...
[December 9, 2004, 7:55]
Ellison Looks Back On 30 Years Of Oracle
News At Oracle OpenWorld in San Francisco, chief executive Larry Ellison shares his insights into the company's 30-year history, including its contract with the CIA to build the first commercial relational database.
[November 13, 2007, 11:35]
Ballmer, Ellison: Can We Work It Out?
News It's not every day that Microsoft chief executive Steve Ballmer and Oracle chief executive Larry Ellison sit down and chat about interoperability of their respective product lines. In fact, no one at Microsoft seems to be able to recall if Ballmer...
[December 20, 2000, 8:36]
Ellison's On-demand Baby On Track For 2006 IPO
News And our owner [Larry Ellison] doesn't need the money. Goldberg said Oracle's acquisition strategy, which has already consumed Siebel and PeopleSoft, and Ellison's 60 percent stake in NetSuite do not conflict with one another.
[April 10, 2006, 9:20]
Ellison Prioritises 'Project Fusion'
News With Oracle's acquisition of PeopleSoft complete, Oracle CEO Larry Ellison said he's now free to focus on "Project Fusion", a combining of Oracle and PeopleSoft products. Ellison has a lot riding on the success of the project, which he hopes will...
[January 19, 2005, 8:20]
Buying Sun Would Be 'bad Idea' - Ellison
News Chief executive Larry Ellison and other executives sounded off at Oracle's annual shareholder meeting on Monday, saying they won't overpay for PeopleSoft and have no interest in buying Sun Microsystems.
[October 14, 2003, 9:40]
Ellison Goes From Zero To $900,000
News Oracle chief executive Larry Ellison will receive a salary of $900,000 (£567,322) for fiscal 2004, marking the first time in three years he has received a salary, according to a proxy Oracle filed on Monday with the US Securities and Exchange...
[September 9, 2003, 13:00]
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]
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. Questioned on Tuesday about whether Oracle can acquire...
[September 10, 2003, 8:35]
Ellison Relaxes Stance On Rival Software
News Relaxing his purist stance on one-stop-shop software, Oracle chief executive Larry Ellison said on Wednesday that it's alright for companies to use Oracle's business system in conjunction with those from rivals Siebel Systems and SAP, and Oracle...
[January 29, 2004, 8:05]
