http://www.oracleinsight.net/rss (Free subscription) | 07/15/2008
Larry Ellison on the idea of IBM merging with SAP: “I’m very pleased with IBM’s strategy, which is to stay out of the applications business. Now, the way to suddenly re-enter would be to buy SAP. Not cheap. That’s a big check that IBM has to write. With a premium, that would be about $70 [...]
24/7 Wall St. (Free subscription) | 06/25/2008
Oracle Corp. (NASDAQ: ORCL) reported earnings after the close of trading today. Its earnings were $0.47 non-GAAP EPS on $7.2 Billion revenues. The First Call... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
Valleywag (Free subscription) | 06/16/2008
Keeping Oracle CEO and cofounder Larry Ellison safe cost the company $1.7 million over the fiscal year ending May 31, 2007. Most of that money went to guards at his homes as well as installing and... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
The Telegraph (Free subscription) | 06/04/2008
On the first day of its one and only regatta, Larry Ellison steered his BMW Oracle Racing's team USA-17 to 3rd after the opening three races of the Audi MedCup in Marseille.
Inbox Robot: Swiss Reinsurance News (Free subscription) | 06/04/2008
On the first day of its one and only regatta, Larry Ellison steered his BMW Oracle Racing's team USA-17 to 3rd overall after
The Independent (Free subscription) | 06/03/2008
Larry Ellison is a busy man these days. Not as the boss of his San Francisco-based Oracle computer software company but at the helm of his racing yachts. Last week he was in Austria in an RC44, so-called because his America's Cup syndicate ceo Russell Coutts designed the 44-foot yacht.
AdScam/The Horror! (Free subscription) | 06/02/2008
You have to both laugh and cry at the news that SF Bay area school districts will have less to spend on their evil government entitlement programs thanks to "Uncle Larry" Ellison. Quite possibly one of the nastiest people I've...
The Independent (Free subscription) | 07/21/2008
Swiss America's Cup holder Alinghi is to lose its CEO Michel Hodara, the man in charge of organising not just the up-coming one-on-one defence against Larry Ellison's San Francisco-based BMW Oracle but in charge of the long-term planning of the next multi-challenge America's Cup in the event of Alinghi being successful.
Microweb News (Free subscription) | 07/19/2008
... financile world as a degree meter for the IT-editions in the business worldChairman of the board Larry Ellison fears to go furnish through the terror less software at among many luchtvaart- and insurances business and hotels. Ellison emphasizes at the same time that it round an estimation goes, as reports the Financial Tim. Friday reported Oracle yet a profit of 511 million...
Detroit Free Press (Free subscription) | 07/17/2008
... and the $500 million it brings in Valencia. Hey, I'd take that deal myself.American billionaire Larry Ellison, head of the Oracle syndicate, cried foul and issued his own challenge under the 1887 Deed of Gift, which governs the event. (The America's Cup was first won in England by the yacht America in 1851.)Ellison's challenge calls for a one-on-one race in a boat that's up...
Curbed SF (Free subscription) | 07/11/2008
Silicon Valley. Obscene wealth. Real estate. A decorator or two. Net result? See above. Historically speaking, the Valley's Webtards nouveau riche tend to make rather tragic, if not downright abominable decisions in the design department. (See: Larry Ellison's imperial...
NextBillion.net (Free subscription) | 07/07/2008
"The profit motive could be the best tool for solving the world's problems, more effective than any government or private philanthropy," -Oracle CEO, Larry Ellison Larry Ellison's bravado makes Michael Edwards mad. Similar quotes highlight the introductory section of Edwards' new book, Just Another Emperor . Throughout his book, and in related articles published by the...
The Independent (Free subscription) | 07/10/2008
A commitment to make the America's Cup a challenger-driven event and a tentative opening of the door, if only by an inch or two, to a negotiated settlement of the bitter legal struggle between the American challenger, Larry Ellison's BMW Oracle, and the Swiss defender, Ernesto Bertarelli's Alinghi was made by Russell Coutts, Ellison's skipper and ceo, yesterday.
Entrepreneur Watch (Free subscription) | 07/15/2008
... Steve will buy Yahoo for a song — or watch Yahoo die on Carl’s watch.” That sounds like something Larry Ellison or Scott McNealy would say. Are they at the conference?
Odd Numbers (Free subscription) | 07/09/2008
What do Warren Buffett , Lloyd Blankfein , and Larry Ellison have in common? Besides being rich old white guys, they also happen to be summer babies -- which turns out to be a great thing for shareholders of the businesses they run. Although there are fewer chief executives born in the summer months of July through September than in any other season, the firms that these C.E.O.'s control...
