Ларри Эллисон знаменитые цитаты
The HP board just made the worst personnel decision since the idiots on the Apple board fired Steve Jobs many years ago... That decision nearly destroyed Apple and would have if Steve hadn't come back and saved them.
Из письма в The New York Times по поводу увольнения Марка Хёрда из Hewlett-Packard на фоне сексуального скандала. Месяц спустя Хёрд был приглашён на должность со-президента Oracle
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Bill Gates wants people to think he’s Edison, when he’s really Rockefeller<…> though I wouldn’t mind being Rockefeller either. But referring to Gates as the smartest man in America isn’t right. I’m not the fourth smartest man in America. Wealth isn’t the same thing as intelligence
из интервью http://www.newsweek.com/silicon-samurai-oracle-172176 еженедельнику Newsweek
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О Джонотане Шварце, последнем президенте Sun Microsystems, Статья http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE64B5YX20100512 в Reuters
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„Это битва Microsoft против человечества, и у Microsoft в ней небольшое преимущество.“
из статьи http://www.thetherapist.com/cgi-bin/BBS2/index.cgi?read=259 в w:The Wall Street Journal от 5 марта 1998 года
It’s Microsoft versus mankind, with Microsoft having only a slight lead
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Ларри Эллисон цитаты
Интервью Financial Times, 18 апреля 2006 http://us.ft.com/ftgateway/superpage.ft?news_id=fto041820061306424713
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The interesting thing about cloud computing is that we've redefined cloud computing to include everything that we already do. <…> The computer industry is the only industry that is more fashion-driven than women's fashion. <…> It's complete gibberish. It's insane. When is this idiocy going to stop?
Речь на Oracle OpenWorld 2008 http://news.cnet.com/8301-13953_3-10052188-80.html?part=rss&subj=news&tag=2547-1_3-0-5
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“Let’s look at their technology… They buy computers. They rent a room. Uh, they put the computers in the room. They buy electricity and plug it in. They then buy an Oracle database to run on those computers and then they buy Oracle middleware to build their applications. Oh, excuse me, and then they build this little itty-bitty application for salesforce automation… Most of the technology at Salesforce.com is ours… We think Salesforce.com has got terrific underlying technology… In fact, everything they run is on an Oracle database. We think the Oracle database is fabulous cloud technology. But they don’t stop there. On top of the Oracle database they build their applications using — what is it? Oracle middleware. Oh, my God.”
Eric Savitz. Oracle To Salesforce.com: You Guys Are Useless, Come Keynote Our Conference//Barron’s, 2009-10-09 http://blogs.barrons.com/techtraderdaily/2009/10/09/oracle-to-salesforcecom-you-guys-are-useless-come-keynote-our-conference/. О компании Salesforce.com и их облачной риторике
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Ларри Эллисон: Цитаты на английском языке
Smithsonian Institution Oral and Visual Histories, Oral History Interview with Lawrence Ellison (24 October 1995) http://americanhistory.si.edu/collections/comphist/le1.html.
Контексте: When I started Oracle, what I wanted to do was to create an environment where I would enjoy working. That was my primary goal. Sure, I wanted to make a living. I certainly never expected to become rich, certainly not this rich. I mean, rich does not even describe this. This is surreal.
As quoted in "Ellison: Oracle remains unbreakable" CNN (21 January 2002) http://articles.cnn.com/2002-01-21/tech/oracle.unbreakable.idg_1_oracle-software-chairman-and-chief-software-microsoft-s-exchange?_s=PM:TECH.
“The computer industry is the only industry that is more fashion-driven than women's fashion.”
Referring to the term "cloud computing" in his Oracle OpenWorld 2008 speech, as quoted in "Oracle's Ellison nails cloud computing" at cnet (26 September 2008) http://news.cnet.com/8301-13953_3-10052188-80.html?part=rss&subj=news&tag=2547-1_3-0-5.
Контексте: The computer industry is the only industry that is more fashion-driven than women's fashion. Maybe I'm an idiot, but I have no idea what anyone is talking about. What is it? It's complete gibberish. It's insane. When is this idiocy going to stop?
“If an open source product gets good enough, we'll simply take it.”
Financial Times interview (18 April 2006) http://us.ft.com/ftgateway/superpage.ft?news_id=fto041820061306424713.
Контексте: If an open source product gets good enough, we'll simply take it. So the great thing about open source is nobody owns it – a company like Oracle is free to take it for nothing, include it in our products and charge for support, and that's what we'll do. So it is not disruptive at all – you have to find places to add value. Once open source gets good enough, competing with it would be insane. … We don't have to fight open source, we have to exploit open source.
“Great achievers are driven, not so much by the pursuit of success, but by the fear of failure.”
Evan Elite : Lesson #4: Break Through That Wall http://www.evancarmichael.com/Famous-Entrepreneurs/649/Lesson-4-Break-Through-That-Wall.html.
Statement in 1999, as quoted in "Oracle's Talking: Should You Be Listening?" by Jeff Sweat in Information Week (7 February 2000) http://www.informationweek.com/772/oracle.html.
On the previous managers of Sun after Oracles take-over, in "Special Report: Can that guy in Ironman 2 whip IBM in real life?" Reuters (12 May 2010) http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE64B5YX20100512.
“I hate the PC, with a passion.”
Triumph of the Nerds: The Rise of Accidental Empires (1996), 47"00.
“It's Microsoft versus mankind, with Microsoft having only a slight lead”
article http://www.thetherapist.com/cgi-bin/BBS2/index.cgi?read=259 in The Wall Street Journal (5 March 1998).
