Hard Facts

• Larry Ellison is the only person Chuck Norris is afraid of.
• The current crisis only exists because Larry Ellison wanted to buy cheap.

BEA has created their business entirely on aquisitions. Larry found that irritating, so he bought BEA.

Larry Ellison and The Cia

Actually, Oracle's first customer was the mighty CIA. Sounds impressing. Until you find out that the number one reason for CIA's awarding of the contract to Oracle was to avoid a future hostile takeover bid.

In the end Ellison bought the KGB and became president of Russia using the name of Vladimir Putin (look at the photos, it's obvious that Putin and Ellison are the same man)

Larry Ellison's favourite quotes II

You can't make an omelete without buying an egg bracker company
(Based on a quote from Josef Stalin)

Larry Ellison Favourite Quotes I

White Cat, Black Cat, it doesn't matter at all. What matters is killing the Cat
(in Mao Tse Tung on Marxist Software Engineering Dialectics)

More Facts

• Larry Ellison believes in God, as long as he can still sees himself on the mirror.
• Larry Ellison is not married, he has a 100% controlling stake over his wife.
• Larry Ellison is a friend of Steve Jobs, and on some weekends they meet to have fun scaring employees to work more.
• The first release of Oracle was labeled 2. The release one was killed, allong with all programmers who had introduced boats.
• Larry Ellison was depicted once in a movie: 007 vs Goldfinger. Of course, James Bond was not inspired on Larry Ellison.
• In response to the September 11th terrorist attacks, Ellison offered to donate to the Federal government software that would enable it to build and run a national identification database and issue ID cards. It's still disputed if Ellison also offeread to host the database, but this seems unlikely, given Ellison's future plans of buying out the United States.
• Larry Ellison sleeps 10 hours a day. Because of that, he said that Oracle employees don't need to sleep, as he is doing this part of the Job.
• Larry Ellison's READERS never block WRITERS, Larry Ellison WRITERS never block READERS. Never. Period.

Larry Ellison Facts - I

• Larry Ellison has no enemies, only people he didn't bought yet.
• Ellison to Gates: "Bill, I am your father"
• Ellison to Torvalds: "Linus, I am your father, but I sold you as a baby to start my company"
• Thanks to Elison, there's no longer a purgatory, he did a DROP TABLE TB_PURG_01.
• Larry Ellison bought Sun, no, not sun microsystems, not only...
• Larry Ellison was flying his private jet on the 9/11. Of course the No-Fly order didn't apply to him. Nobody at the NSA, CIA or FBI would risk their budgets with an increase on Oracle License prices.
• Iran is only a small step short of having a nuclear Bomb. "if we coulda onle manaja to make RAC workars withat a PhD" (Anonymous Scientist from Iran)
• Larry Elison: "Nobody will ever need a table name with more than 32 characters"