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Page 1: John Hawker Comp. Science- 1631 Jan. 31, 2011.  Lawrence Ellison, otherwise known as Larry Ellison is the co- founder of the Oracle corporation, one

LARRY ELLISONORACLE’S GENIUS

John HawkerComp. Science- 1631

Jan. 31, 2011

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SUMMARY Lawrence Ellison, otherwise known as Larry Ellison is the co-

founder of the Oracle corporation, one of the best known database system organizations in the world today.

He is a former college drop out who proved his intelligence in the programming world. He chose to take is attention span disorder, where he thought it best fit, which was programming in is mind.

This Presentation will take you through a brief walk in Larry Ellison's world, whether it be his job, life or hobby.

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EARLY BIOGRAPHY

Lawrence Joseph Ellison was born on august 17, 1944, in New York City.

Mothered by Florence Spellman, and later adopted by his great aunt, Lillian Ellison, and uncle Louis Ellison.

He grew up in the northern part of Chicago, and later moved to South Shore, Chicago, where he would live until he moved on his own to North Carolina, beginning is programming career that he lives with today.

Interesting enough, Lawrence did not meet his biological mother, until he was 48 years old.

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Education

Ellison had attended and graduated from Eugene Field Elementary School, of Chicago.He later moved on to attend high school in South Shore, Chicago, where his intelligence began to excel.After his graduation in 1962, he would take his knowledge to the University of Illinois, where he would only drop out after his sophomore semesters due to the death of his adoptive mother.After spending the summer away from Chicago, he went back and attended the university of Chicago, hoping to fulfill degree’s in physics and mathematics, but he would once again drop out after only a short period later.

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His drop out years were not a complete waste of time, during his last months attending university, Ellison had discovered the world of computer designing.

He would go on to teach himself the knowledge of computer programming, where he became very attracted to the idea of creating programs.

At the age of twenty, he began to create programs in his permanent home of North Carolina. He had worked in multiple corporations as a computer programmer.

Education cont.

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Working Career

• In 1966, Ellison began bouncing around jobs in North Carolina where he worked with programming.

• He became the vice president of the Precision Instruments Co. in the late 1960’s, but this wasn’t satisfying enough for Ellison

• In 1977, he was hired by a company called Ampex Corporation where his ability would be put to task. He was to design a database for the CIA, and they decided to call it “Oracle”. He and a former boss Robert Miner had decided to open up software development labs, where $2000 of Ellison's own capital was put into the investment, where they would create their own corporation known as Oracle.

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As of 1977, Ellison was the C.E.O and co-founder of the Oracle Corporation.His corporation is well known for developing hardware systems, and database management systems, or enterprise software. Ellison’s corporation created the world's first commercially viable relational database. This technology revolutionized the way businesses were able to access and use data.Oracle has become the third largest software corporation in the world, behind Microsoft and IBM. Ellison was on his way to being one of the most popular names in the programming world, becoming the richest man in the world in 2000, but only for a short period of time.

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More Success

The success of Ellison’s creation is overwhelming. New version’s of the creation “oracle” are upgraded nearly every year with more and more success.Larry Ellison has been the C.E.O of Oracle since he created the corporation, and is still the C.E.O today.He and his corporation are still ranked with top competitors today, with over 105,000 employee’s worldwide.

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Ellison’s Production

Oracle released a new database named “10g”in 2004, and its the first application server software that is designed for grid computing. The interrelationship that Oracle and Java possess has enabled the company to allow developers to set up stored procedures written in the Java language.

Oracle also build software tools for database systems, such as ERP, CRM, and SRM. Oracle have third-party applicants that added some assistance to the success and production of these software tools such as Aquire, Hewlett-Packard, and Solix Technologies.

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Ellison’s Fortune

Ellison has been a rising name in the fortune category since the mid 1980’s when his corporation hit great success. Oracle has been bypassing competitors with new upgrades, and more modern systems. Forbes had Ellison ranked in the top ten wealthiest people worldwide since 2000, and he has not lowered since, even reaching the richest man in the world during a short period of 2000.As of 2010, Ellison is ranked sixth in the world, his personal wealth being 27 billion dollars.Ellison was ranked the best paid executive from 2000-2010 with a salary of 1.84 billion dollars. His salary of 2009 was just over 70 million.Owning over 1.3 billion shares of the company, and his 38% ownership, there is no doubt that Ellison is among the richest. He lowered his base pay of 1.0 million in 2009 to only 1 dollar in 2010.

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Ellison; His Icon statusTo have a successful corporation such as Oracle, you must have

one of the great’s for your chief executive officer. Ellison is a perfect example of a great C.E.O. He represents a perfect leader for the company, he not only needed to create the database of the future, but he also had to use his persuasiveness to convince the world that his relational databases were the way of the future, in which he succeeded. He is without a doubt, an Icon in the business world, and he should be recognized for it. He not only has extreme leading skills for his corporation, he also has outstanding fame and reputation. He represents Oracle within the corporation ,and outside it to the media. It is almost like a sixth sense, for a C.E.O to have such knowledge, to be a leader, a C.E.O that shows his creativity and skills in every category you would want to see in a C.E.O. leadership skills, management skills, his programming knowledge for future products, his ability to persuade and convince people to trust him when he says Oracle is the future. He is an icon, and will forever be one.

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Donations

Like any other billionaire in the world, Ellison has made his fair share of donations to charities and those in need. He is a man who looks at money as nothing another than standings in a list. He believe he will eventually donate 95% of his wealth to charitable groups.After the shocking terrorist attack on September 11th, Ellison had donated a software to the Federal Government that would enable the use of national identification database for I.D cardsHe has made charitable donations toward the Stanford university as thank you to two professors who independently helped evaluate a case regarding Oracle.He is known for his donations to the medical research and education funds that are estimated to be hundreds of millions of dollars.In 2004 alone ,Forbes list of charitable donations, Ellison recorded donations adding up to $151,092,103 , nearly 1 % of his total fortune.He is among the top donators for an American, and truly shows that his fortune means little to him compared to what it could do for charities.

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Hobbies

Aside from being the C.E.O of his corporation, Ellison enjoys his time on the water. He is a big boat fanatic, whether it be cruising in the sun or racing for the win. He enjoys his massive yacht, as well as his racing team, BMW Oracle, that he has put hundreds of millions into with the task of winning the American Cup.Other then his passion on the water, inland he shows great interest in the game of tennis. Ellison has followed the game all of his life, and in 2010 purchased 50% shares of the BPN Paribas Open, one of the largest tennis tournaments in America.

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family

Larry Ellison was apart of many families being married 4 times. As his programming career was growing , he met a wonderful woman named Adda Quinn, who he married in 1967, and seven years later went through a divorce ending the marriage in 1974.As he worked on making his new database corporation succeed, he got married for the second time to Nancy Wheeler Jenkins, in which they would divorce only one year later.Just as his corporation was about to rise in success, he met and married his third wife, Barbara Boothe. Meeting the wonderful women brought two wonderful children into his life. His son David, who was born in 1983, and his daughter Margaret, otherwise known as Megan born in 1986. The birth of his son is what brought on his third marriage as Barbara wanted to be married after having the child.Lastly, he married Melanie Craft in December of 2003, where they would stay married until recently divorcing in 2010.

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Worthy Awards

Oracle has received Technology of the year award for the database, 10g.

Readership Awards: Best Analytic Applications, Business Performance Management & Web Analytics

eWeeks: Top products award, Oracle database 10g.

2004

2001 Reader's Choice Award: Best Enterprise

Database Product, Best Java Reporting Tool Services Marketing Excellence Award,

Increasing Services Sales Effectiveness - The Oracle e-Valuator tool .

1990

Harvard Business School named Ellison Entrepreneur of the Year.