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Larry Ellison

Microsoft and Oracle, frenemies at last: What others can learn from their unlikely partnership

by Todd Bishop on October 3, 2023October 3, 2023 at 12:48 pm

“All partnerships are tactical. There is no such thing as a strategic partnership.” That’s one of the lessons that business and technology leader Bob Muglia tells the companies he works… Read More

Larry Ellison makes first-ever visit to Redmond to announce Oracle databases in Microsoft cloud

by Todd Bishop on September 14, 2023September 15, 2023 at 3:31 pm

Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella and Oracle Chairman and CTO Larry Ellison made a rare joint appearance this afternoon to announce the next stage in their partnership, a new service that… Read More

Oracle names new cloud infrastructure leader, signals broader ambitions to challenge Amazon

by Todd Bishop on August 13, 2020August 13, 2020 at 10:20 am

Oracle wasn’t the first big tech company to offer public cloud computing infrastructure, or the second, or the third. When Oracle Cloud Infrastructure launched in 2016, aiming to compete against… Read More

Instead of a real check on the growing power of Amazon Web Services, Oracle’s Larry Ellison offers nothing but words

by Tom Krazit on December 18, 2018December 19, 2018 at 4:57 am

At some point, it starts to get a little sad. Oracle co-founder and chief technology officer Larry Ellison uncorked another barb at Amazon Web Services Monday following the release of… Read More

Oracle still can’t make up its mind about how it fits into the cloud era

by Tom Krazit on September 12, 2018September 12, 2018 at 10:36 am

Top Oracle executives apparently can’t agree on how to move the database company forward in the cloud computing era. Thomas Kurian, president of product development at Oracle and one of… Read More

As it shifts cloud focus to platform services, Oracle tries to hold on to its database legacy

by Tom Krazit on March 27, 2018March 27, 2018 at 1:44 pm

After years of taunting and dismissing Amazon Web Services, Oracle founder Larry Ellison all but acknowledged Tuesday that AWS “pioneered” the market for rental computing. Oracle now plans to compete… Read More

Oracle co-founder Larry Ellison slams Amazon Web Services in OpenWorld keynote, also mentions new database product

by Tom Krazit on October 1, 2017October 1, 2017 at 8:05 pm

Given an hour in front of thousands of his company’s most important customers Sunday evening, Oracle co-founder and executive chairman Larry Ellison spent almost as much time talking about Amazon… Read More

Oracle’s Larry Ellison takes aim at Amazon Web Services, promises a new “self-driving” database

by Tom Krazit on September 14, 2017September 14, 2017 at 5:09 pm

Say what you want about Oracle executive chairman and chief technology officer Larry Ellison, but he hasn’t lost his passion for taking shots at Amazon Web Services. Ellison used Oracle’s… Read More

Oracle to open 3 new cloud regions this year, escalating challenge to AWS and Azure

by Dan Richman on January 17, 2017January 17, 2017 at 7:50 am

Database giant Oracle today moved to strengthen its position as a full-service cloud provider, using CloudWorld, a one-day conference convening in New York City, to announce new products and plans to open several… Read More

Oracle’s Ellison rips Amazon Web Services on performance, price and openness

by Dan Richman on September 20, 2016September 21, 2016 at 8:49 am

Oracle chairman and CTO Larry Ellison unleashed a flurry of punches against Amazon Web Services this afternoon at the OpenWorld users’ conference, making it clear Oracle will compete with AWS for Infrastructure as… Read More

Oracle’s Larry Ellison: Amazon’s lead in cloud is over

by Dan Richman on September 19, 2016September 19, 2016 at 11:08 am

Oracle chairman and CTO Larry Ellison last week said he’d do it, and he did. The company best known for its conventionally licensed, on-premises database is launching itself as a faster, cheaper… Read More

Cloud price wars ending? Oracle chief Larry Ellison won’t be signing any truce

by Dan Richman on September 16, 2016September 16, 2016 at 8:54 am

Some may think the cloud-computing price wars are waning — Microsoft cloud chief Scott Guthrie said so just the other day — but apparently Oracle chairman and CTO Larry Ellison hasn’t heard the… Read More

Oracle’s Ellison brushes off competition as Microsoft and Amazon make inroads in cloud database market

by Greg Sandoval on March 16, 2016March 16, 2016 at 10:04 am

Oracle co-founder Larry Ellison displayed some of his famous swagger following the release of the company’s earnings report on Tuesday. Ellison, who is also Oracle’s chief technology officer, said he… Read More

Larry Ellison steps down from top job at Oracle

by Blair Hanley Frank on September 18, 2014September 18, 2014 at 1:30 pm

Oracle Co-Founder Larry Ellison will be stepping down from his job as CEO today, the company announced. His role will be taken over by company President Mark Hurd and Chief… Read More

The best domain name for Google’s new project is owned by … Oracle

by Blair Hanley Frank on September 19, 2013September 19, 2013 at 1:38 pm

Yesterday, Google announced Calico, its new project to help humans live longer. One of the first rules of starting a new venture is making sure you can get the domain… Read More

Larry Ellison pessimistic about Apple’s future, shows disdain for Google’s evil ways

by Blair Hanley Frank on August 13, 2013August 13, 2013 at 8:43 am

One of the questions that continues to plague Apple is whether or not the company can survive without the leadership of Steve Jobs. Oracle CEO Larry Ellison doesn’t have high… Read More

Battle in the cloud: Oracle taking on Amazon.com and everyone else

by John Cook on September 30, 2012September 30, 2012 at 10:44 pm

Oracle CEO Larry Ellison once dubbed cloud computing nothing more than “water vapor,” noting three years ago that “all it is is a computer attached to a network.” But now… Read More

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