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Oracle is in course to make Larry Ellison the world’s richest man

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Re: Oracle is in course to make Larry Ellison the world’s richest man

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Post by gary_0 »

doubled112 wrote: post #11
oilchange wrote: post #8

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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I suppose an aquarium is just a small pond. Floats to the top or sticks to everything.

That's why you get an algae eater fish.

When I was a kid we had a fish tank with an algae eater. He was fun to watch.

Re: Oracle is in course to make Larry Ellison the world’s richest man

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Post by ksec »

vr46 wrote: post #4

"Larry, you don't need any more money" - Steve Jobs ( https://www.businessinsider.com/steve-jobs-larry-ellison-201... )

>Jobs responded by saying, "I think if I went back to Apple and didn't own any of Apple, and you didn't own any of Apple, I'd have the moral high ground."

>Ellison's response: "Steve, that's really expensive real estate, this moral high ground."

I still have vivid memory of this reading it 10+ years ago. It paints so much character to Steve as a person. Which is mostly considered as an Ass Hole on HN post 2014.

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Post by hourago »

> During the company’s latest quarterly earnings call on June 12th the septuagenarian rhapsodised youthfully about artificial intelligence (AI) and the latest cloud-computing technology.

The joy of writing about the rich while ignoring society struggles.- The Economist

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Post by hsjqllzlfkf »

WisNorCan wrote: post #16

Oracle is one of those companies like Microsoft which many in the tech industry wrote off years ago. Neither one qualified for the illustrious FAANG acronym. Ideally, when these things happen people would examine their blindspots.

Get rid of fb, enter Microsoft and Oracle

MAANGO

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Post by nailer »

WisNorCan wrote: post #16

Oracle is one of those companies like Microsoft which many in the tech industry wrote off years ago. Neither one qualified for the illustrious FAANG acronym. Ideally, when these things happen people would examine their blindspots.

I’m still writing Oracle off. It might be profitable but it’s not influential or innovative, and because of the later it will eventually die.
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