There are not many CEOs who have been more entertaining than Larry Ellison. You may love or hate it, but fresh initiatives and sleivspark the competition has been a staple of man’s public appearances. Journalists have joked about Oracle’s public relations department has been forced to take sedatives when Ellison be on the podium. No one knows what he will find to say.
70 years old Ellison resigned as Oracle’s CEO yesterday, but he will continue in Oracle as CTO (Chief Technology Officer) and Chairman of the company. Thus, it is unlikely that we have heard the last word from the edge, but to mark the end of this epoch, our American kolleeger IDG News Service compiled some favorite quotes from Ellison, stated in different contexts.
Who invented the cloud?
Ellison and Oracle’s relationship with Salesforce.com has been a longstanding source of healthy stride. Part of the strained relationship because Ellison feels he does not get his share of the credit for having invented cloud computing. Ellison early in the company NetSuite, which was one of the first staging companies. Yet often attributed the honor of cloud computing salesforce.com Marc Benioff.
“I think I started up the first skyselskapet” Ellison said at a meeting in San Francisco in January. “It’s called NetSuite, and is a year older than Salesforce.com,” he added. This is an old discussion, two years ago, Ellison said the following in an interview with All Things D: “I started NetSuite, and this was my idea. I called up Evan Goldberg and said that we would provide ERP online as software as a service. Six months later Marc Benioff out what we were doing, and somehow copied it. ”
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Three years ago, Oracle launched its public cloud service with Fusion applications to the company. When did Salesforce.com review, where Ellison among others mentioned platform to Salesforce.com as a ‘roach motel “of cloud computing, where customers are locked forever:” You can check in but never check out “Ellison said at the time the salesforce.com service.
Fires of SAP and HP
One of Ellison’s favorite targets in recent years has been the German software house SAP. “Ninety-nine percent of their business is ERP, and they have not converted their products for the cloud. They have not even started with it. Therefore, it is very difficult for me to look at SAP as a competitor, “Ellison has stated.
Oracle is a straight violation of the SAP, which has admitted that a former subsidiary had stolen intellectual property from Oracle. When Oracle tried to summon former SAP CEO Leo Apotheker to justice, Apotheker was conveniently enough on the road for his new employer HP. It failed Ellison hold herself in to comment: “We summoned him to court in the SAP case, but he was on the run. The board of HP sent him to Bolivia to talk with customers. Then they send him to Mongolia for client meetings, just outside the reach of American authorities. The Board found that they should have let him be in Mongolia, for when he came to California, it was ugly, “said Ellison about the matter.
Another favorite is when HP decided to replace Hurd with Apotheker position as chief executive, slammed Ellison also lip:
“I am speechless. … HP had several good candidates … but instead they picked a guy who had recently been fired for doing a poor job of leading SAP. ”
Jobs as Picasso
Ellison also had strong opinions about new technologies. “Those who believe that Hadoop is going to take over for Oracle, see nothing of what Hadoop is. There is batch processing. If you want to look up someone’s phone number [using Hadoop], so you can come back tomorrow for an answer. ”
Finally, we offer we have an Ellison-treat if it imitating his old friend Steve Jobs: “Trying to make themselves more like Steve Jobs is like thinking ‘I want to paint like Picasso, but what should I do? Should I use more red paint? ‘”.
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