And when much of the Plaza was turned into luxury condos in 2008, after aliquidationsale of its contents, it seemed to have sold itself to the forces of extreme money and globalization forces that Fitzgerald would well have understood.
To eliminate any conflicts of interests, Ellison's shares have been placed in a "lockbox" or voting trust, that will eliminate Ellison's voting control over company matters "other than a change of control transaction, dissolution, sale of substantially all of the Company's assets or liquidation" as long as Ellison remains an officer or director of Oracle, according to regulatory filings.