The Founder of Oracle

Larry Ellison

Founder of The Oracle Corporation.

United States of America.

Larry Ellison was the founder and CEO of the major database software firm Oracle Corporation.

Lawrence Joseph Ellison was born in Bronx, NY on 17-Aug-1944. Ellison was born out of wedlock to a 19-year-old girl, and was raised by her aunt. He had an early aptitude for mathematics, and worked as a young man for Ampex Corporation. He founded Oracle in 1977, putting up $2000 of his own money, under the name Software Development Laboratories. In 1979 the company was renamed Relational Software Inc., later to be renamed Oracle after the flagship product Oracle database. He had heard about the IBM System R database, also based on Codd's theories, and wanted Oracle to be compatible with it, but IBM stopped this by keeping the error codes for their DBMS secret. The initial release of Oracle was Oracle 2, even though there was no Oracle 1.It is a marketing tactic. The release number was intended to imply that all of the bugs had been worked out of an earlier version.

Ellison realized that Oracle had been slow to harness the Internet, to integrate and streamline business processes, and to create value for customers compared to the other digital pioneers at that time in 1998. With in two years Oracle was able to accomplish what took Cisco and other digital pioneers four years.

It is very proud of the fact that all ten of the world's largest Web sites, from Amazon.com to Yahoo!, rely on the Oracle database. It quickly adds that 98 of the Fortune 100 use Oracle for e-business. Now Oracle is also one of the world’s leading suppliers of application software.

Moreover oracle acquired Sun, and now Java and its future is in hands of this man, is it?