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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]
Oracle offers $1m challenge... again
News Larry Ellison, Oracle's chief executive, had made a similar guarantee in October that Oracle's software would outpace IBM and Microsoft products. So far, no one has attempted to cash in on Ellison's original offer two months ago, said Scot Clawson...
[December 20, 2000, 15:54]
The Day Ahead: Is too much of Oracle's Ellison a bad thing?
News Is too much of Oracle chief executive Larry Ellison a bad thing? Lane has been credited with making Oracle more efficient and providing "an important balance to Larry Ellison's management style". Ellison rants about the competition and talks up...
[July 6, 2000, 13:55]
Why Oracle and HP tied the knot
News So Larry Ellison, the Playboy of Silicon Valley, tied the corporate knot with the industry's $90m (£56m) woman, Carly Fiorina? Or as the HP source put it, "Larry (Ellison) hates Siebel, so when Scott McNealy implemented them" things started moving.
[September 23, 1999, 10:00]
Oracle: Squaring up to SAP
News One of the riveting things about Oracle boss Larry Ellison is his flair for verbally skewering his foes in public. For instance, Ellison likes pairing the name Bill Gates with the phrase "convicted monopolist" whenever possible.
[April 4, 2005, 16:35]
Oracle wants to meet PeopleSoft
News Oracle chief executive Larry Ellison wants to meet with PeopleSoft in order to try and change the company's 'negative position' regarding the proposed takeover Oracle chief executive Larry Ellison posted a letter dated 9 June to Craig Conway, chief...
[June 10, 2003, 13:15]
Oracle Special: Inside the pressure cooker
News It is a sales manager's worst nightmare: a midnight call from Larry Ellison demanding to know why an important deal didn't close. Ellison has long been known to harbour animosity for Tom Siebel, who was a senior executive at Oracle in the 1980s...
[July 2, 2001, 13:41]
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]
Ellison: Who needs fat clients?
News Oracle chief executive Larry Ellison announced the Oracle 9i Application Server product and a partnership with Compaq Computer to resell the software on two-way Compaq ProLiant servers during his Monday night Comdex/Fall '00 keynote speech.
[November 14, 2000, 8:07]
Oracle enhances hosted business apps
News NetLedger, financially backed by Oracle chief executive Larry Ellison, had already added sales and customer-service components to the software package last autumn. The company lags behind faster-growing rivals, such as Salesforce.com, another start...
[March 12, 2002, 10:26]
Larry takes a pay cut
Blog Oracle’s chief executive and founder Larry Ellison has agreed to cut his basic pay from $1 million to just $1 dollar for the coming financial year. However, the Ellison household is unlikely to starve, as the Oracle boss is still set to pocket an...
[August 24, 2009, 17:20]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog What, Larry Ellison? They're funded by Larry Ellison and…" For all I know, they could well have spent Larry's dosh on making the world's most exciting storage solutions — but they didn't do so well on the
[September 30, 2005, 19:15]
Oracle shows its friendly face
News The Larry Ellison bombastic style of marketing doesn't always work in the (business) applications market. Chief executive Larry Ellison, known for his unyielding bravado at industry conferences, struck humbler tones as he spoke to customers.
[April 11, 2002, 13:56]
The software contrarian
News And as he revels in Sybase's prospects, Chen is getting equal enjoyment watching the latest antics of his chief rival in the database market, Oracle, and its mercurial CEO, Larry Ellison. If Larry Ellison manages to buy PeopleSoft, would you jump...
[July 29, 2003, 10:15]
Microsoft to Oracle: Cease and desist
News In fact, Microsoft has called in its lawyers over Oracle's recent criticisms of Microsoft's SQL Server performance, Oracle chief executive Larry Ellison mentioned casually during a Wednesday night keynote address at Internet World.
[October 27, 2000, 8:32]
Ellison steps down from chairman role
News Safra Catz and Chuck Phillips, both executive vice presidents, will serve as co-presidents and report to CEO Larry Ellison, who had also served as the company's chairman. Oracle has been operating without a clear heir apparent to Ellison since Ray...
[January 13, 2004, 16:25]
Four IT men
Leader Larry Ellison: But you know, we were happy in those days, although we had barely any storage. Larry Ellison: Well, of course, we had it tough! Larry Ellison: You were lucky to have a switches! Larry Ellison: Or interface!
[September 13, 2006, 16:35]
Oracle: The new industry bad boy? Pt II
News When we found out that Ray Lane and Larry Ellison were going around in a jet to steal every IBM customer they could -- and they were succeeding -- that's when the gloves came off," according to a former IBM official.
[July 6, 2000, 9:36]
Apple: Judgement Day starts at 2pm today
News What is the involvement of his close friend, and well known Valley billionaire Larry Ellison going to play in Apple? This keynote has to tackle the 'make your mind up time' issue for Larry Ellison, as much as for Steve Jobs.
[August 6, 1997, 11:26]
Sun ropes in Oracle to push high-end servers
News Oracle chief executive Larry Ellison said the partnership shouldn't cause rivalries between the two companies' sales forces. The Oracle salesperson gets credit for the Sun sale," Ellison said. Oracle is rebuilding its applications using the...
[January 11, 2006, 13:30]
