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Exclusive: Former MySQL boss Marten Mickos talks open source
Comment The Commission has yet to give its official approval to the acquisition - a delay that Oracle CEO Larry Ellison said is costing Sun $100m every month it waits for a decision on the deal. In an exclusive interview, former... [19 Nov 2009]
Marc Benioff
AS Profile He's a protégé of Larry Ellison, having worked at Oracle prior to founding Salesforce.com in 1999, and the Oracle boss still has a stake in the company. As head of Salesforce.com, the software-as-a-service CRM company he... [29 Sep 2009]
Larry Ellison
AS Profile As CEO of Oracle, Ellison hasn't made it onto the Agenda Setters list as much as you might expect. Ellison has been a distinctive presence on the global tech industry for almost two decades and Oracle... [29 Sep 2009]
Oracle-Sun steaming ahead with joint plans despite EU probe
News Larry Ellison, the software giant's chief executive, is joining Sun's server chief, John Fowler, to show off some new Sun hardware running Oracle's software on Tuesday. You are invited to attend an exclusive webcast... [15 Sep 2009]
Oracle's Ellison to take $1 salary this year
News Oracle CEO Larry Ellison will receive a base salary of $1 for fiscal 2010, according to a regulatory document filed on Friday. But Ellison won't exactly be starving. And according to Oracle's filing with... [24 Aug 2009]
Google to launch netbook operating system next year
News Google Chrome OS provides a new option that hearkens back to the Network Computer era of the 1990s espoused by Sun Microsystems' Scott McNealy and Oracle's Larry Ellison. Google has announced it is developing an... [08 Jul 2009]
Oracle gunning to boost Java in netbooks
News Oracle chief executive Larry Ellison is looking to extend his footprint to inexpensive laptops and other electronics gadgets. Ellison said on Tuesday that he wants to boost use of Java software on... [03 Jun 2009]
Oracle-Sun deal: Integration issues?
News Oracle chief executive Larry Ellison is a true believer, though, making the sales pitch in the company's official statement: "Oracle will be the only company that can engineer an integrated system - applications to disk... [21 Apr 2009]
The Weekly Round-Up: 24.10.08
Round-Up And for Larry Ellison, perhaps, a Frank Zappa number. As it surveys the scene outside silicon Towers this week (mainly rain and a building site in case you were wondering) the Round-Up has been giving some serious... [24 Oct 2008]
Oracle's plan for economic downturn? Spend, spend, spend
News Stock crash or not, CEO Larry Ellison says that Oracle is sticking to his game plan and that means more acquisitions. During a question-and-answer session at Oracle's annual shareholders meeting on Friday,... [13 Oct 2008]
IBM follows Microsoft into the cloud
News IBM argued that cloud computing is a way for businesses to draw more value from their existing IT infrastructures, since much of the work is offloaded onto remote servers, but the cloud-computing concept has received sharp criticism... [06 Oct 2008]
Yahoo!'s board gets shareholder backing
News Larry Ellison Oracle Yahoo! s board of directors won strong backing from shareholders at its annual meeting on Friday, with Jerry Yang, the company's embattled CEO, receiving 85 per cent of the vote in his favour. [04 Aug 2008]
Infosys launches radical retail tech services
News Larry Ellison Oracle Infosys CEO Kris Gopalakrishnan is an unassuming man, who doesn't use his position to be imposing. It's less important for him to be the company's controller than to look like he is. [01 Aug 2008]
Oracle sees strong software profits
News In May, Forbes reported that Oracle CEO Larry Ellison was the best-remunerated executive in the tech sector - and overall - with a total 2007 compensation package valued at $192.9m. Software licensing drove a healthy... [26 Jun 2008]
BT CEO Ben Verwaayen to step down
News Larry Ellison BT's CEO Ben Verwaayen is to step down as CEO on 31 May 2008 after more than six years at the telco where he championed its push into broadband and helped it dodge regulator Ofcom's axe. [08 Apr 2008]
