Articles about Larry Ellison

With new Amazon Web Services partnership, Oracle’s cloud database trade-off is complete

Oracle announced a strategic partnership with Amazon Web Services on Monday afternoon that will further integrate its database offerings and… Read More

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

“All partnerships are tactical. There is no such thing as a strategic partnership.” That’s one of the lessons that business… Read More

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

Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella and Oracle Chairman and CTO Larry Ellison made a rare joint appearance this afternoon to announce… Read More

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

Oracle wasn’t the first big tech company to offer public cloud computing infrastructure, or the second, or the third. When… Read More

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

At some point, it starts to get a little sad. Oracle co-founder and chief technology officer Larry Ellison uncorked another… Read More

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

Top Oracle executives apparently can’t agree on how to move the database company forward in the cloud computing era. Thomas… Read More

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

After years of taunting and dismissing Amazon Web Services, Oracle founder Larry Ellison all but acknowledged Tuesday that AWS “pioneered”… Read More

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

Given an hour in front of thousands of his company’s most important customers Sunday evening, Oracle co-founder and executive chairman… Read More

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

Say what you want about Oracle executive chairman and chief technology officer Larry Ellison, but he hasn’t lost his passion… Read More

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

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… Read More

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

Oracle chairman and CTO Larry Ellison unleashed a flurry of punches against Amazon Web Services this afternoon at the OpenWorld users’ conference, making… Read More

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

Oracle chairman and CTO Larry Ellison last week said he’d do it, and he did. The company best known for its conventionally… Read More

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

Some may think the cloud-computing price wars are waning — Microsoft cloud chief Scott Guthrie said so just the other day — but… Read More

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

Oracle co-founder Larry Ellison displayed some of his famous swagger following the release of the company’s earnings report on Tuesday.… Read More

Larry Ellison steps down from top job at Oracle

Oracle Co-Founder Larry Ellison will be stepping down from his job as CEO today, the company announced. His role will… Read More

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

Yesterday, Google announced Calico, its new project to help humans live longer. One of the first rules of starting a… Read More

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

One of the questions that continues to plague Apple is whether or not the company can survive without the leadership… Read More

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

Oracle CEO Larry Ellison once dubbed cloud computing nothing more than “water vapor,” noting three years ago that “all it… Read More