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]
IT heavyweights eye the PeopleSoft pie
News The company recently hired Chuck Phillips, a former Morgan Stanley software analyst, as an executive reporting to and advising Oracle chief executive Larry Ellison. I can't think that Chuck Phillips would advise Ellison to do this if it wasn't for...
[June 9, 2003, 12:40]
Sun promises to make more money
News McNealy said Larry Ellison, Oracle's chief executive, recently gave Sun a big shot in the arm by lowering the licence fee that the database company charges for Sun servers. Larry Ellison basically lowered the cost of goods sold in one fell swoop.
[February 2, 2006, 17:00]
JavaOne Keynote: Live Blog Feed
Blog PST - Larry Ellison takes the stage. Ellison says that every product built inside of Oracle is built on Java. Ellison says that he expects very few changes apart from an expanded level of enthusiasm for Java from Oracle.
[June 2, 2009, 17:47]
Ellison resigns from Apple board
News Oracle chief executive Larry Ellison has resigned from Apple Computer's board of directors, saying he no longer has the time to devote to the company. Ellison has a long history with Apple. I will continue to offer my advice to (Apple chief...
[September 20, 2002, 14:01]
PeopleSoft pleads for customers' support
News On Tuesday, Oracle chief executive Larry Ellison left the door open to raising the share-price offer. Ellison said that his offer will make Oracle a more profitable and competitive company. The company has recently sought to soften initial...
[June 26, 2003, 8:30]
Oracle profit beats analyst expectations
News The company run by billionaire Larry Ellison also reported a smaller-than-expected drop in new software sales and said that it grabbed market share from SAP in certain segments — signs that Oracle may be weathering the downturn better than rivals.
[June 24, 2009, 8:59]
Q&A: J.D. Edwards CEO on resisting Oracle
News Edwards, you dig your heels in, slap Larry Ellison and Oracle with an industrial espionage lawsuit and vow to fight until victory. As the lawsuits, countersuits, verbal sparring and antitrust investigations continued to unfold, Dutkowsky, 48, spoke...
[July 3, 2003, 10:35]
Oracle delivers solid third quarter
News Chief executive Larry Ellison said the company is looking to grow via innovation and acquisition. Ellison also focused on the Exadata database machine business, announced at Oracle OpenWorld, and touted it against Teradata's offerings.
[March 19, 2009, 14:47]
Gates falls from top of world's rich list
News Oracle chief Larry Ellison made it to number 14 on the list, with $25bn to his name. Ellison has dropped three places since last year, despite being $3.5bn richer. Forbes speculated that Zuckerberg "might just be the youngest self-made billionaire...
[March 7, 2008, 14:25]
What's it all about, Larry?
News If colourful Oracle CEO Larry Ellison is right, his swoop on PeopleSoft is not as much to do with the specific changes in the apps market as it is a bellwether for wider and more troubling shifts in the wider industry.
[December 16, 2003, 13:05]
Ellison seeks open-source unity
News There must be a concerted effort to build an open-source offering that's competitive to Microsoft Office if Linux is to make inroads, Oracle boss Larry Ellison said on Wednesday. Speaking at a Linux conference, Ellison told the crowd of loyalists...
[August 15, 2002, 11:32]
Siebel and Ellison: Is this the happy ending?
News Few people in the high-tech industry have feuded as openly as Oracle's flamboyant chief executive Larry Ellison and Thomas Siebel, the co-founder and chairman of rival enterprise software maker Siebel Systems.
[September 13, 2005, 15:15]
NetSuite plans to go public
News NetSuite, an on-demand applications company controlled by Oracle's Larry Ellison, has filed for an auction-style initial public offering, according to a Monday filing with the US Securities and Exchange Commission.
[July 3, 2007, 8:19]
Microsoft unveils home networking plan
News Moreover, Oracle Corp.and its flamboyant CEO Larry Ellison has waxed poetic on many occasion about making devices smarter and connecting them together. The Universal Plug and Play initiative will be Internet protocol based, which means engineers...
[January 8, 1999, 11:22]
Tales of the rising Sun
News Khosla also lavished praise on Jobs, who he said was a role model, along with Oracle chief executive Larry Ellison and Intel's former chief executive Andy Grove. McNealy joined Sun's other co-founders, Vinod Khosla, Andy Bechtolsheim and Bill Joy...
[January 16, 2006, 12:10]
Oracle buys Hyperion for $3.3bn
News The acquisition of Hyperion makes Oracle the category leader in the high-growth enterprise performance management market," Larry Ellison, Oracle's chief executive, said in a statement. The company's software is used to analyse business data, such...
[March 1, 2007, 14:26]
