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Lawrence Ellison

Type: Person

Name: Lawrence Ellison (Lawrence J. Ellison)

Title: Chief Executive Officer and Director

Organization: Oracle Corp.

Nationality: United States

Fact Sheet: Biography for Lawrence Ellison

First Reported 11/20/2009 - Updated 11/20/2009 - 2 Documents (in Corporate Deals)

International Business Machines Corp

Will the Sun Set in Oracle's Backyard?

You can say a lot of things about Larry Ellison, but never call him a quitter.The planned merger of his Oracle (Nasdaq: ORCL) with Sun Microsystems (Nasdaq: JAVA) has been in regulatory limbo for months, leading some observers to speculate that Oracle ... [Motley Fool - 11/20/2009]

Entities: Oracle Corporation, Buyout, Motley Fool, International Business Machines Corp

First Reported 11/20/2009 - Updated 11/20/2009 - 2 Documents (in Internet & IT)

Google Inc

4 Big Gambles Google Is Taking With Chrome OS

You’ve gotta hand it to Google: The company is never shy about throwing the proverbial spaghetti against the wall to see if it will stick. Over the years, it’s introduced countless projects that have gone through long beta cycles only to fail miserably ... [GigaOM - 11/20/2009]

Entities: Google Inc, Operating Systems, Lawrence Ellison, Google Docs, Microsoft Corporation

First Reported 11/20/2009 - Updated 11/20/2009 - 1 Documents

NIKE Inc

How Google and Nike got their names

London, Nov 20 (ANI): Google got its name from googol - the number one followed by 100 zeroes which represents the amount of information the site was expected to cover, and Nike's name come from a Greek goddess, reveals a new book.The book narrates the ... [Yahoo! India - 11/20/2009]

Entities: NIKE Inc, Google Inc, Aldi A/S, The Economist, Top Secret

First Reported 11/20/2009 - Updated 11/20/2009 - 1 Documents (in Internet & IT)

Oracle Corporation

Oracle opponent cheers mySQL delay

Florian Mueller, coordinating opposition to Oracles purchase of Sun Microsystems and mySQL, sent a note today cheering word that Oracle has asked for, and gotten, to answer European objections to the purchase. (Picture from Roberto Galoppini.)Mueller, ... [ZDNet - 11/20/2009]

Entities: MySQL, Oracle Corporation, Mårten Mickos, Florian Mueller

First Reported 10 hours ago - Updated 10 hours ago - 1 Documents (in Internet & IT)

IBM Oracle Blog: A Quick Trip Down Trivia Lane

3:04 PM/EST It's a known fact IBM and Oracle have had a professional business partnership for decades, longer than most of today's marriages, but I wondered how many people were aware of some fun facts about the two dynamic vendors.So I went to the Web ... [eWeek - 10 hours ago]

Entities: International Business Machines Corp, Oracle Corporation, Lawrence Ellison, Computing Tabulating Recording Corporation, Ampex Corporation

First Reported 11/15/2009 - Updated 11/15/2009 - 1 Documents (in Corporate Deals)

O'Brien: Ellison and Oracle may have met their match in Europe

I couldn't be sure whether that was fog rolling past Oracle's shimmering Redwood City towers last week or steam coming out of the ears of Larry Ellison when he learned the European Union had officially objected to his purchase of Sun Microsystems.We can ... [SiliconValley.com - 11/15/2009]

Entities: Oracle Corporation, Peoplesoft Inc, Lawrence Ellison, MySQL

First Reported 11/16/2009 - Updated 11/16/2009 - 1 Documents (in Market News)

Sun Reports First Quarter Results for Fiscal 2010

Sun reported results for its first quarter of fiscal 2010, which ended September 27, 2009. The company narrowed its first-quarter loss to $120 million, or 16 cents a share, from $1.68 billion, or $2.24 a share, in the year-ago period. Lower operating ... [SunFlash Newsletter - 11/16/2009]

Entities: Oracle Corporation, Lawrence Ellison, Declination, US Department of Justice

First Reported 11/16/2009 - Updated 11/16/2009 - 1 Documents (in Internet & IT)

View Slide Deck to Oracle's Keynote at 4th Cloud Expo

Rex Wang Discussed Private, Public, and Hybrid During his Cloud Computing Expo KeynoteArticle Rating:Reads:1,140Rex Wang, VP of Product Marketing at Oracle took the audience through a tour of the company's offerings during his keynote presentation at ... [Cloud Computing Journal - 11/16/2009]

Entities: Cloud Computing, Lawrence Ellison, Virtual Image, International Cloud Computing Conference

First Reported 11/16/2009 - Updated 11/16/2009 - 1 Documents (in Internet & IT)

Acrobatic pilot transforms love of flying into film

Paramount Pictures and Skydance Productions have entered into a four-year agreement to co-finance four to six films a year. David Ellison, a 27-year-old acrobatic pilot and the son of Oracle founder Larry Ellison, owns Skydance Productions. Ellison financed ... [SmartBrief - 11/16/2009]

Entities: David Ellison, General Aviation, Paramount Pictures International, Lawrence Ellison

First Reported 11/18/2009 - Updated 11/18/2009 - 1 Documents (in Internet & IT)

Global CIO: Oracle CEO Larry Ellison's Goodbye Letter To European Customers

What if Oracle gets truly fed up with the European Commission's abuse and decides that the simplest way to complete its acquisition of Sun is by pulling its business out of Europe and thereby sidestepping the do-nothing ditherers of the EC? Well if Larry ... [Information Week - 11/18/2009]

Entities: Lawrence Ellison, Neelie Kroes, Oracle Corporation, European Commission

First Reported 11/03/2009 - Updated 11/04/2009 - 11 Documents (in Corporate Deals)

EU showdown over Oracle-Sun

Oracle is reportedly gearing up for a formal rejection by European regulators of its bid to acquire Sun Microsystems, according to . An official statement of objection, the first step in blocking the $7.4 billion deal, could come as early as this week ... [ZDNet - 11/04/2009]

Entities: Oracle Corporation, European Union, Official Statement, MySQL

First Reported 11/06/2009 - Updated 11/07/2009 - 6 Documents (in Market News)

Sun's Business in Shambles Thanks to "Uncertainty Associated With the Proposed Acquisition by Oracle"

“The decrease in ____ revenue was primarily due to _____ “and uncertainty associated with the proposed acquisition by Oracle (ORCL) and increased competition.” That refrain is repeated over and over again in Sun’s (JAVA) latest grim earnings report which ... [All Things Digital - 11/07/2009]

Entities: Acquisition, Lawrence Ellison, Oracle Corporation

Quotes

The editorial cited a previously-secret letter from SAP's chief executive Leo Apotheker sent to Larry Ellison at Oracle which said: "as you know, we have significant concerns about oracle's proposed takeover of sun. we renew our invitation to meet to attempt to resolve our concerns and other open issues between our companies. please let us know if and when you would like to meet." The letter was sent 15 September, shortly after the European Commission began investigating Oracle's takeover bid for Sun...

SAP rejects blackmail charges over Oracle letter [The Register - 11/12/2009]

Oracle CEO and founder Larry Ellison said at the recent Oracle OpenWorld conference in San Francisco, "mysql in no way competes with our databases. it has its own market and following. the main competitor is microsoft sql server], and that's ok by us."

EC Objects To Oracle Sun Deal [Eweek Europe - 11/10/2009]

...workers in the next year, about 10% of its workforce, citing the delay in closing the acquisition, which was supposed to happen in the summer. "the longer this takes, the more money sun is going to lose" Ellison said at the time, insisting he wouldn't spin off MySQL

Oracle's Sun Deal: Oracle May Need to Loosen Its Grip [MSNBC - 11/09/2009]

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IBM Oracle Blog: A Quick Trip Down Trivia Lane [eWeek - 10 hours ago]
MDM: Build or Buy? [Information Management Magazine - 10 hours ago]
Will the Sun Set in Oracle's Backyard? [Motley Fool - 11/20/2009]
Oracle opponent cheers mySQL delay [ZDNet - 11/20/2009]
How Google and Nike got their names [Yahoo! India - 11/20/2009]
Exclusive: Former MySQL boss Marten Mickos talk... [Silicon.com - 11/19/2009]
Salesforce demos Service Cloud 2 [TechRepublic - 11/19/2009]
Salesforce CEO chatters about new social media ... [TechRepublic - 11/19/2009]
GUEST-BLOG: SugarCRM Calls Salesforce.com’s Clo... [Destination CRM - 11/19/2009]
Adobe CTO: Flash in the future [TechRepublic - 11/18/2009]
IBM Gets Cozy on the Sidelines as Oracle / Sun ... [Seeking Alpha - 11/18/2009]
The Future of ERP, Part II [CIO Magazine - 11/18/2009]
Predicting the Great Cloud Shakeout – Don’t Bec... [.NET Developer's Journal - 11/18/2009]
Global CIO: Oracle CEO Larry Ellison's Goodbye ... [Information Week - 11/18/2009]
IBM feels cozy on sidelines as Oracle-Sun deal ... [ZDNet - 11/18/2009]
NetSuite, InsideView Pull Social-Networking Dat... [eWeek - 11/18/2009]
Oracle Trashes HP Relationship for Sun [Enterprise Open Source Magazine - 11/18/2009]
Salesforce's Marc Benioff sees cloudy future [San Francisco Chronicle - 11/17/2009]
Acrobatic pilot transforms love of flying into ... [SmartBrief - 11/16/2009]
Does Slow Growth Equal Slow Death? [inc.com - 11/16/2009]
S.F. meets goal of trees - but workers get ax [San Francisco Chronicle - 11/16/2009]
View Slide Deck to Oracle's Keynote at 4th Clou... [Cloud Computing Journal - 11/16/2009]
Sun Reports First Quarter Results for Fiscal 2010 [SunFlash Newsletter - 11/16/2009]
EU issues objections to Oracle-Sun merger [TMC Net - 11/15/2009]
O'Brien: Ellison and Oracle may have met their ... [SiliconValley.com - 11/15/2009]
In Hindsight: Silicon Valley job cuts, mergers ... [San Jose Mercury News - 11/14/2009]
EMC declares VMWare acquisition of the decade [ITP.net - 11/14/2009]
Cloud Talk - Why Enterprise 2.0 is Bogus [ebizQ.net - 11/13/2009]
The Second Stimulus Is Now A Done Deal [Business Insider - 11/13/2009]
Why Oracle Should Leave Europe: A Look at the N... [Seeking Alpha - 11/13/2009]

Blogs

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4 Big Gambles Google Is Taking With Chrome OS [GigaOM - 11/20/2009] You’ve gotta hand it to Google: The company is never shy about throwing the proverbial spaghetti against the wall to see if it will stick. Over the years, it’s introduced ...
4 Big Gambles Google Is Taking With Chrome OS [... [GigaOM Network - 11/20/2009] You’ve gotta hand it to Google: The company is never shy about throwing the proverbial spaghetti against the wall to see if it will stick. Over the years, it’s introduced ...
EU Objections to Oracle / Sun: Distortion of Ma... [Software Sector and Stocks Analysis from Seekin ... - 11/20/2009] Dennis Byron submits: In a November 16 blog post, despite the cursory view of some analysts who say withdrawing from the European Union (EU) enterprise-software ...
Are EU Objections to Oracle/Sun Really About Ma... [IT Investment Research - 11/19/2009] In a November 16 blogpost, despite the cursory view of some analysts who say withdrawing from the European Union (EU) enterprise-software market is not feasible ...
Hollywood raising big cash for Jerry Brown [CNN Political Ticker - 11/18/2009] (CNN) - Hollywood is getting behind Jerry Brown's bid to be the next governor of California with a coming out party Wednesday night in Los Angeles. The fundraiser ...

Audio/Video

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Larry Ellison & Ed Zander at the Churchill ... [Churchill Club - YouTube - 09/23/2009]
Larry Ellison on cloud computing, with Ed Zande... [Churchill Club - YouTube - 09/22/2009]
MarketWatch's Take On Tech For September 22 [Marketwatch Take On Tech - 09/22/2009]
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