Larry Ellison

Back in 1995, Larry Ellison wanted to buy Apple so he could help his buddy Steve Jobs get his job back. But, being a good businessman, he also wanted to make a lot of money. The story comes to us via Walter Isaacson's new biography, aptly titled Steve Jobs . At the time, the man who brought us the iPod, iPhone and Apple computer wasn't so keen on the idea. "I'm not a hostile takeover kind of guy," he said. A year later, Apple asked Jobs to return to the company -- without Ellison. Since the...Read Full Story

Well, well, well. The Oracle OpenWorld Conference is in full swing, and Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff was scheduled to be one of the keynote speakers tomorrow (Wednesday). “Was” being the operative word here. Thanks to a recent update from Benioff’s Twitter account, it seems that Oracle CEO Larry Ellison has cancelled Mr. Benioff’s keynote tomorrow. Hmmm. Instead, Larry will be king of the stage, with a one hour and forty-five minute keynote, kicking off at 2:45 p.m. PST. No word as of yet on...Read Full Story

FRANKFURT ( Reuters ) - SAP's $3.4 billion takeover of SuccessFactors will help it keep up with peers in the frenzied race for cloud-computing business, even if the price it paid is very high at first glance, analysts said on Monday. "We believe SuccessFactors could be a very good strategic fit for SAP in the cloud sector and we prefer the decision to grow externally in this booming area," DZ Bank analyst Oliver Finger said. SAP said on Saturday it was buying U.S. web-based services company...Read Full Story

Today, at the Web 2.0 Summit in San Francisco, Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff took the stage to talk about the current landscape of the cloud for the first time since the public back-and-forth between himself and Oracle CEO Larry Ellison . For those unfamiliar, earlier this month, Ellison cancelled Benioff’s keynote talk at The Oracle OpenWorld Conference. Benioff wasn’t particularly psyched about the move, and gave a fiery talk from the St. Regis Hotel across the street instead. Benioff took...Read Full Story

Today, at Oracle’s OpenWorld Conference in San Francisco, an animated Larry Ellison took to the stage to unveil an assortment of cloud computing services, which will run the company’s long-time-in-coming (six years, in fact, Fusion Applications — most notably the “Oracle Public Cloud”. And, not one to miss an opportunity, Ellison made sure to take quite a few public jabs at Salesforce — and vicariously, its CEO Marc Benioff — whose keynote earlier in the day was cancelled due to “overwhelming...Read Full Story

Editor’s note:  Contributor  Ashkan Karbasfrooshan is the founder and CEO of  WatchMojo . In soccer (or football outside the U.S.), the term talisman is given to the one player whose genius can turn a game around. With him, his team wins—without him, his team falters. Over the past 25 years, Steve Jobs clashed with Bill Gates, Andy Grove and Michael Dell, but during the past decade, he led Apple’s resurgence with the additions of the iPod, iPhone and iPad, driving Apple to become the...Read Full Story

SELLER: Larry Ellison LOCATION: Woodside, CA PRICE: $19,000,000 SIZE: 5,850 square feet, 4 bedrooms, 3.5 bathrooms YOUR MAMAS NOTES: Listen kittens, Your Mama may not be the sharpest knife in the drawer but we are neither a dumb bell with our fat head stuck in the sand. Like all of the rest of y’all, Your Mama is well aware of the heavy, wet blanket of weltschmerz that’s settled over many and angrily gripped others of the world’s citizenry. At the risk of appearing far more flip than we...Read Full Story

SAN FRANCISCO ( Reuters ) - Technology giant Oracle Corp has developed an ambitious array of cloud computing services in a bid to catch up with Amazon.com Inc and Salesforce.com Inc , two leaders in the field. The offerings were unveiled by an enthusiastic Oracle Chief Executive Larry Ellison, a contrast to his attitude at an investor meeting several years ago when he mocked cloud computing as a financial analyst asked him what his strategy was for expanding into that area. The new offerings...Read Full Story

One of the richest men in the world, Oracle CEO Larry Ellison, a real movement again, this time a list of properties in Woodside, California. Just days before the Wall Street Journal profiled Ellison real estate expenses, including the acquisition of certain assets of Premier Lake Tahoe. He already owns the property across the country, from Malibu to Newport, Rhode Iceland. Ellison is famous for the purchase of separate parcels to create large compound, and that’s what he’s in Tahoe. The...Read Full Story

Silicon.com Oracle, Salesforce and the Brewing Cloud Wars TechNewsWorld It's not just that Marc Benioff and Larry Ellison can't share the stage -- apparently, their companies can't share the cloud either. Basically, Oracle and Salesforce are heading to the same destination, said Muneer Taskar, ... Oracle not eyeing acquisitions in cloud space Times of India Larry Ellison unveils Oracle Public Cloud, claims no one will be locked in Ars Technica Oracle OpenWorld: Big Data, the Cloud, and Major...Read Full Story