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Larry Ellison talks Steve Jobs at All Things D

Thursday, May 31, 2012

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Oracle CEO Larry Ellison reflected a bit on Steve Jobs during an All Things D sit down this week. Ellison noted that “in addition to his genius, he had a single mindedness and attention to detail,” describing Jobs as “a bit of a control freak,” and saying “he wanted to engineer every aspect ” of […]

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“Lots and lots of blogs does not replace lots and lots of sales.”

Thursday, May 13, 2010

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Oracle CEO Larry Ellison explains that the $7.4 billion acquisition of Sun was a talent grab, and in no way an effort snatch up the “vision” of Sun CEO, and regular blogger, Jonathan Schwartz. The underlying engineering teams are so good, but the direction they got was so astonishingly bad that even they couldn’t succeed. […]

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