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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 increase in revenue for Oracle... [26 Jun 2008]
Bill Gates knocked off rich-list perch
News Oracle chief Larry Ellison makes it to number 14 on the list, with a cool $25bn to his name. Ellison has dropped three places since last year despite being $3.5bn richer. Microsoft's unsolicited $44.6bn bid to take over Yahoo! [06 Mar 2008]
Profile: Nandan Nilekani, co-chairman, Infosys
News Larry Ellison Oracle Co-founder of Indian outsourcing giant Infosys, foundation board member of the World Economic Forum, co-founder of the Indian National Association of Software and Service Companies (Nasscom), one of the Time magazine's 100 most... [03 Mar 2008]
Steve Ballmer's $44.6bn letter to Yahoo!
News Larry Ellison Oracle Microsoft today made a $44.6bn offer for web giant Yahoo! valuing the company 62 per cent higher than its latest stock value. According to Microsoft, the bid is intended to better position the two companies in the online world... [01 Feb 2008]
Special Event Replay: CEOs Take Enterprise Computing Head On
White Paper The presenters of this webcast, HP CEO Mark Hurd, and Intel CEO Paul Otellini - along with a special message from Oracle CEO Larry Ellison - and author Geoffrey Moore as moderator, present their views on enterprise computing. [13 Dec 2007]
Oracle users demand better support
News Larry Ellison Oracle Oracle customers want better product support through improved call centres and more information about services. Ronan Miles, chairman of the UK Oracle User Group, told silicon.com: "Areas of issue are in the support sphere. [10 Dec 2007]
Steve Jobs top of the Power pops
News Larry Ellison Oracle Jobs took the top spot in Fortune magazine's Power 25 for 2007, for having "twice altered the direction of the computer industry". Apple's launch of the Apple II in 1977 "kicked off the PC era", wrote Fortune, which also... [29 Nov 2007]
European software industry gets big thumbs up
News Larry Ellison Oracle At an awards ceremony in Brussels, Intellect announced the top European IT companies for 2007 - the 'Truffle 100'. Agenda Setters 2007 - Top 20 Find out who made it into silicon.com's Agenda Setters top 20 by clicking on the... [22 Nov 2007]
Gartner: CIOs - develop business analytics or IT loses out
News Larry Ellison Oracle CIOs that want to protect their IT budget from being slashed need to develop business analytic capabilities, according to new research from IT analyst group Gartner. Pressure on IT budgets should be relieved by 2010, said... [21 Nov 2007]
Oracle: 'Any fresh BEA bid would be lower'
News Larry Ellison, Oracle's CEO, said the initial $6.7bn - or $17 per share - offer for BEA seems overpriced these days. Ellison also noted that Oracle's middleware business is growing rapidly on its own. [16 Nov 2007]
Larry Ellison
AS Profile Always outspoken, Ellison's undeniably larger-than-life ego would appear to be the driving force behind Oracle's success. Larry Ellison has been perhaps the most colourful figure in the global IT industry for the past 15 years. [12 Oct 2007]
NetSuite announces flotation plan
News NetSuite's majority shareholder is currently Oracle CEO Larry Ellison. NetSuite was founded in 1998 by Goldberg and Nelson, both formerly of Oracle, around the same time as on-demand rivals RightNow Technologies and fellow Oracle alumnus Marc... [02 Jul 2007]
Yahoo! signs up for Oracle Linux
News Oracle CEO Larry Ellison announced the company's first prominent Linux customer Tuesday: Yahoo! According to a Thomson Financial transcript, Ellison used even bolder terms, saying Oracle "replaced" Red Hat at Yahoo! [22 Mar 2007]
Bill Gates still richer than Croesus
News Oracle founder Larry Ellison meanwhile was travelling the other way: up four places to 11th with an estimated worth of $21.5bn. Bill Gates has for the 13th year running topped the Forbes rich list with an estimated fortune of $56bn. [09 Mar 2007]
Big boys to flex security muscle at RSA
News Oracle CEO Larry Ellison is slated to deliver a keynote speech on Wednesday at the San Francisco event. Companies including Cisco Systems, Intel, Microsoft, Oracle and Sun Microsystems are vying for a piece of the pie, which may hurt the smaller... [06 Feb 2007]
