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What’s Behind the Marc Benioff-Larry Ellison Feud?

Arik Hesseldahl in News on October 5, 2011 at 11:54 am PT

The long-simmering feud between the CEOs of Salesforce.com and Oracle is about fundamentally different views on cloud computing technology. But it’s also more than a little bit personal.

The Long Reach of Oracle’s Larry Ellison

Arik Hesseldahl in Enterprise on July 30, 2011 at 7:35 am PT

If it ever seems like Larry Ellison’s fingerprints are all over the software industry, it’s not your imagination, but you have to see it to believe it.

Party at Larry's Crib: NetSuite's 10th Anniversary Dinner

Kara Swisher in News on October 27, 2008 at 8:00 am PT

BoomTown has been lagging in getting up this lovely video I did from a dinner party last Thursday, thrown for NetSuite’s tenth anniversary, which was held at one of billionaire Oracle founder Larry Ellison’s many houses–this one in the tony Pacific Heights section of San Francisco. NetSuite is one of the pioneers in the broadly termed software-as-a-service space, selling an “integrated web-based business software suite.” Sounds dull? Yep! But the party was not and, actually, this is an important topic, as businesses actually do begin to embrace the idea of putting themselves increasingly in the so-called cloud.