Larry Ellison & Ed Zander at the Churchill Club 9.21.09

[projectbrumaire]

Ed Zander is mad hes not Larry Ellison...

[5PYZ3R]

They really should have scrapped Ed from this interview. His questions weren't really that great and he's just a goon, I should have just skipped all the way to the crowd questions.

[bobjimjones]

started to sound like ric flair for sec there

[utoostrict]

look at Ed Zander being soooooooooo desperate to for attention constantly trying to interrupting Mr. Ellison with dumb commentary. okay 2nd rate or 3rd rate CEO and mr. NON billionaire. you PALE in the presence of Larry Ellison

[Myflesh101]

@utoostrict Yeah Zander seems pretty arrogant to me, maybe thats the way they joke around, but if it was me I'd tell him to fuck off. Larry seems very mature about it though and rolls with it all gracefully.

[msbrando]

Please, Larry Ellison and Oracle have been offering Software As a Service, means, "cloud computing" for today marketing strategy. So it is nothing new at all. I remember working in a company in late 90s and we used Oracle software and that software were in the Oracle data center.

When he says about "Sand Hill Road", is because it is where there are a lot of "Venture Capital Firms" and they came out with the marketing term "CLOUD COMPUTING".

Simple like that.

[cheatdath]

highest IQ

[kprasad]

that sad clown of an interviewer needs to shut it the HELL up with trying to be funny and let his interviewees talk.

[Darkhex]

@kprasad ...you're ridiculous

[kprasad]

@Darkhex maybe. i just had this weird perception that interviewers are supposed to ask questions, not interrupt, joke and belittle. esp the comments about cloud computing. many consider this showmanship but an interview isnt the place for it.

[angelusp777]

Even Apple is integrated. Integration is the best.

[ACQUAARIA]

I agree with most of Larry's statements, but ...

... what the hell had ride him to hire that talentless, egomanic, destructive tyrant named Mark Hurd into ORACLE ???

[all028]

Although I agree completely with Larry, this video comes across as strange.  It seems like he's doing stand up comedy rather than making a speech

[me19662]

Is he drunk or something? look at min 45 on..is he drinking vodka in the bottle?

[JesusManson323]

Hey Larry, don't knock the cloud.

I made woopie with my wife, she said I was lousy.

I told her, But dear, that was Cloud Woopie".

She said, "Wow, that was the best woopie I've ever had!"

[JesusManson323]

32:30 = "MySQL and Oracle do not compete at all."

GHENGIS KHAN TRANSLATION:

"Since I will kill you and rape your village, we will not compete at all. Problem solved! Peace in our time!"

[JesusManson323]

Google tells us we don't need software anymore.

Oracle tells us we don't need "cloud computing" anymore.

And Microsoft tells we don't need Google or Oracle anymore.

God help us.

[moneyman10k]

lol @ 44:45

[rolexx]

Larry Ellison, inventor of the world's first database, is definitely spot on here. Cloud computing is nothing more than a stupid buzz word.

[woogrind]

@rolexx for all reading this, Larry Ellison did not invent the first relational database. engineers at IBM did. they called it System R. it was not a fully relational db management system in terms of its efficiency and capability, but it was a base. many other brains during the 70's tried to catch on when SQL was released, but it was Ellison who perfected the database before it really gained any kind of market exposure or momentum.

[chenalfredc]

I appreciated the insight on the Sun acquisition, but I really enjoy the response to the question on Cloud Computing. Laughed my ass off.

[rahulspider]

Ed Zanders needs to learn to listen !!

[ridthedelusional]

Ellison and Jobs seem to have similar personalities in a way. Computers make quite a few billionaires when you think about it

[readthename]

They are really good friends Jobs photographed Ellison's wedding

[rossbagley]

I'm a little dismayed that Ellison didn't answer the question about cloud computing more intelligently. Yes, "cloud computing" has several meanings, some of them sillier than others. However, the idea of storing your data (and now your running programs) on computers that you don't own or maintain or can even quantify as machines is a fairly new development and an interesting one that can dramatically reduce the effort needed to deploy and manage a web application.

But Larry went hyperbolic.

[ZTora]

I don't know, I think he answered it well. People have been storing data online for decades. I've stored documents I've worked on in my website in a locked location since 1999.

if anything "cloud computing" is just a marketing term for describing the maturity of the internet. Heck, how long has MS Visio used a "cloud" to describe the internet?

[rossbagley]

I guess "storing your data" was insufficiently precise. I wasn't referring to passive files accessible via ftp and rcp, but your "active" data, from your business databases to your email and medical records. Our digital "state" as people and companies is quickly moving away from our physical location and onto the network.

What do we lose and gain with this trend?

That question is very interesting to me and Larry should have something interesting to say about it, but he chose not to.

[Suiken44]

Ellison is afraid of cloud computing, plain and simple. His business model is built on software licenses, hefty maintenance charges, and customer lock-in.  Cloud disrupts all of this, and Ellison knows this...

[GLeNss]

@Suiken44 though the term cloud is definitely a buzzword used by marketers, maybe that's what he is getting at.

[angelusp777]

@Suiken44 nope

[rdavek]

I think he spooked Zander a bit who chose not to let him elaborate when finally got to his real answer which was that cloud is a business model rather than a technology.

[MyRofaith]

Interesting idea... integrating at the engineering level rather than at the consultancy/services level... wrt Sun/Oracle being the former and IBM Global Services being the latter.... I like the former...

[rahulkadwe]

Its water vapour!! :D

[stevanikof]

We're taking EVERYTHING... :)