That goal could prove to be elusive, for Ellison's main database business, still nearly two-thirds of revenue, grows only 3% a year, according to Citigroup.
At a February hearing before the New York Court of Appeals in Albany, lawyers for Ellison's bmw Oracle Racing made their final plea to force fellow billionaire Ernesto Bertarelli to race Ellison for the Cup.
That goal could prove to be elusive, for Ellison's main database business, still nearly two-thirds of revenue, grows only 3% a year, according to Citigroup (nyse: C - news - people ).
He represents a formidable adversary for Ellison.
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Next up for young Ellison, the latest Mission: Impossible film starring Tom Cruise.
For some time, Mr Ellison's vision for Oracle has been to become the Apple of the enterprise, hiding complexity from customers, just as Apple does with its powerful but easy-to-use consumer products.
However, Harris WCM have signed up Briton James Ellison for next year.
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Mr. Hurd will thrive working for Mr. Ellison if he quickly realizes that the Oracle co-founder prefers lieutenants who "think straight and talk straight, " one former Oracle executive said.
Ellison, for his part, will just keep on sailing--solo, when it comes to the succession question.
In a hearing scheduled for Monday afternoon, Ellison's lawyers will argue that Bertarelli has illegally seized control of the 156-year-old sporting event and trashed its already somewhat tarnished tradition of gentlemanly competition.
The county councillor for the town, Bob Ellison, said he does not believe this will happen.
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It's a business so nice, it's about to pay off twice for Oracle Chief Executive Larry Ellison.
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It ocurs to me that this might mean Larry Ellison getting Sun Microsystems for free.
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Behind the scenes, we have people like David and Megan Ellison who both return for a second year.
Tom Siebel, a star Oracle salesman, left in 1990 to found Siebel Systems when Ellison rejected his idea for a sales-force product.
Schools prefer the "big and tall" sizes for educational furniture, said Tony Ellison, CEO of Shoplet.com, which sells office and school furniture.
Hannity -- who does carry the party's water most of the time -- allowed Ellison to go on for a couple of minutes.
Ellison has been in control for three decades, and only once was that even remotely in question, after an accounting debacle back in 1990.
Indeed, Mr Ellison boasts that his enthusiasm for being a chief executive has been rekindled by the power he gained as a result of deploying the e-business suite within Oracle and thus gaining better, more timely information on which to base decisions.
Ellison said Oracle is seeing competition for HCM deals in soon-to-IPO Workday, but not SAP.
The drive on cost reduction, along with Mr Ellison's previously unsuspected appetite for detail and process, astounded everybody at Oracle, not least Mr Lane.
But Ellison may not have bought it solely for pleasure's sake.
Meanwhile, Illston also ruled that Oracle failed to produce tapes and transcripts from interviews that writer Matthew Symonds conducted in 2001 and 2002 for the book Softwar: An Intimate Portrait of Larry Ellison and Oracle, according to the decision filed in U.S. District Court-California Northern District.
Ellison counters that SAP moves too slowly to update for the Internet age and will suffer for it.
Between 1966 and 1973, Philadelphia singer-songwriter Lorraine Ellison recorded three albums and a bunch of scattered tracks for Loma Records, the nascent "soul" division of Warner Bros.
Bertarelli and Ellison also agreed to liberalize the rules to make it easier for challengers to get into the game.
Ellison had been trying in vain to penetrate the lucrative market for sales-force automation software, where Siebel is the undisputed leader.
Oh and there's also a tussle for the Conservatives' four places on the Backbench Business Committee: vying for them are David Amess, Bob Blackman, Peter Bone, Jane Ellison, Philip Hollobone and Marcus Jones.
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