Lawrence Joseph Ellison, called Larry Ellison, (* 26. March 1944 in the Bronx, New York town center), is founder and president (CEO) of the US software company Oracle and is at present at place 9 among the richest men of the world.

Its company had itself originally specialized in software within the range Datenmanagement and served meanwhile also very strongly the market segment for enterprise solutions (main competitors: SAP).

Ellison is as a joint founder of Oracle admits for his very dynamic occurrence and applies in lines of business as everything else as a "usual" businessman. Mike Wilson, which wrote a biography over Ellison, called it with The Difference Between God and Larry Ellison - which difference between God and Larry Ellison, which an eloquent certification for the call is, which Ellison enjoys. Briefly it applied behind the Bill Gates' as secondaryrichest humans world.

The billionaire Ellison is described as a very facet-rich and eccentric character. Apart from its call as a marketing genius it is called Playboy and Sportfanatiker. Ellison achieved among other things the title of a world champion in the sail running and is a jet pilot - he possesses flight permission for an Italian fighter plane in the USA.

Life

Its nut/mother, Florence Ellison, bore him as an illegitimate child at the age of 19 years. Due to these circumstances it delivered it after 9 months to relatives to Chicago. There it grew with its aunt Lilian, the second woman of its stepfather Louis Ellison, a Russian, at the beginning 20. Century into the USA had emigrated, up. From its father held for be suited-being suited anything, he does not buildup there with his Jewish stepparents of the central layer in a 2-Zimmer-Appartement.

1962 it left the High School and began in the same year at the University OF Illinois in Champaign with the study of mathematics. During its study it achieved always outstanding achievements and even as a student of the yearly was distinguished.

When its stepmother deceased in the year 1966, it fell in deep mourning by all final examinations and left therefore the university without conclusion.

In the year after, 1967, he married its first wife, Adda Quinn, which studied a teaching profession. The following years attended it to different activities at different computer companies, which left straight sufficient money for its life to it. Since the kind of these activities particularly - mainly baking UP volumes changed - read itself it did not demand it on the basis specialized knowledge detailed by some books to topics of computer science on.

he became acquainted with 1974 with activities in the company Ampex (Multimedia) its later firm joint founder, Bob Miner and OD Oates. There the three concerned themselves among other things with the then program-technical problem of the very much limited mass storage devices. This problem remained unresolved during their there activity; Ellison and Oates left the company. Still in the same year developed Ellison then for the company Precision instrument company an efficient store management system. In addition it came 1974 to the divorce of Adda, its first wife.

Ellison its data base program developed the next years further, but it was too memory complex for the computers at that time. In a discussion with its neighbour this recognized the Potenzial of this software and guessed/advised it to the advancement.

After Ellison 1976 had married his second wife, Elizabeth Wheller, he created 1977 with a capital stock of 2.000 US Dollar as well as Oates and Miner in the silicone Valley the company Software development Laboratories, which today under the name Oracle admits is. Initial problems did not hold the founders before the purchase of the software technology VAX and their integration into the developed data base system.

it could 1978 be separated after 18 months marriage from its second wife. In the year after, 1979, were so far extended the data base system that it was ready for operation on several different network architectures. In the following years the data base technologies were developed further by Oracle. The company had average growth rates of 200 per cent.

After its marriage 1982 with its third wife, Barbara Boothe, bore these it 1983 its first son David and 1986 its first daughter Margaret Elizabeth.

On 18 December 2003 Larry Ellison married its fourth wife, Melanie Craft. Steve job was with this cause an official photographer.

Myth Ellison

Around Larry Ellison climb due to its life-style a quantity of stories:

• It is to have so far always rejected it its approx. 30 years old Mercedes to scrap. Ellison is to have bought this cars far before beginning of its successful career used. It is after-said to him in addition that it this very day with it drive.
• From time and above all patience lacking Ellison is with regularly instead of finding sail running always about one hour before the goal on the yacht to be flown to be able.
• After a sail running it is to have driven its fighter plane to the victory allegedly immediately to the airport, there have mounted, in order to circle and to the latecomers thereby a further humiliating cause over the heads of the Segler.
• In the year 2001 it complained successfully against the city San Jose in the proximity silicone of the Valley, since it disturbed it that it was not allowed to land at night with its private jet (Gulfstream V) on the airfield of San Jose.
• Further he is to have stepped out after a pursuit with the police before Oracle the building of his Ferrari and have handed over the arriving policemen at its lawyers and press speakers already waiting.
• In addition it is considered as admitting single, which praised again and again itself in various Talkshows to have a high "woman wear".
• On a computer fair 2001 it called and to the attack on these called the Internet operational readiness level of its company indisputable. The successful aggressor promised he eternal fame. On-line article

Estimated fortune

In US Dollar, according to the list of billionaires of the Forbes of magazines:

• 2005 - 18.4 billion, place 9
• 2004 - 18.7 billion, place 12
• 2003 - 16.6 billion, place 6
• 2002 - 15.2 billion, place 5
• 2001 - 21.9 billion, place 4
• 2000 - 58.0 billion, place 2
• 1999 - 13.0 billion, place 12

From its wealth it afforded among other things with a matter of expense of approximately 200 million US Dollar the second largest yacht of the world, the Rising Sun. The largest yacht possesses prince Abdullah is Abd aluminium-Aziz of Saudi Arabia

Literature

• Mike Wilson: The Difference Between God and Larry Ellison. ISBN 0060008768
• Matthew Symonds, Larry Ellison: Was: At Intimate Portrait OF Larry Ellison and Oracle. ISBN 0743225058
• Daniel honorable: Larry Ellison: Sheer nerve (Techies). ISBN 076131962X
• David A. Kaplan: Silicone Valley. The digital dream factory and its heroes ISBN 3453179897 (here chapter V Oz, P. 158-202, over Larry Ellison)

Related links

• Oracle
• Larry Ellison in the Forbes of magazines (English)

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