Larry Ellison, is one of the most outrageous, outspoken personalities in the tech industry.
And he has been for years.
He's held the CEO role at Oracle since 1977. That makes him the longest-running tech CEO in Silicon Valley history.
And that certainly gives him the right to have opinions on just about everything.
Cloud computing: "Maybe I’m an idiot, but I have no idea what anyone is talking about."
In September, 2008, Larry Ellison completely dissed cloud computing while speaking at an analyst conference. He said:
“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. 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?"
Cloud computing: "I'm not gonna fight this thing."
At that same conference, he also admitted that Oracle would start selling cloud services, too.
"We'll make cloud computing announcements because, you know, if orange is the new pink, we'll make orange blouses. I mean, I'm not gonna fight this thing ... well, maybe we'll do an ad. Uh, I don't understand what we would do differently in the light of cloud computing, other than market ... you know, change the wording on some of our ads."
Cloud Computing: SaaS was really his idea and Marc Benioff stole it.
"I started NetSuite. NetSuite was my idea. I called up Evan Goldberg and said, 'We're going to do ERP on the Internet, software-as-a-service.' Six months later Marc Benioff, finding out what NetSuite was doing, and kind of copied it," Ellison said at the 2012 AllThingsD's D10 conference.
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