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Lawrence Joseph Ellison (born August 17, 1944) is an American businessman and entrepreneur who cofounded software company Oracle Corporation. He was Oracle's chief executive officer from 1977 to 2014 and is now its chief technology officer and executive chairman. As of March 2024, he is the eighth-wealthiest person in the world, according to Bloomberg Billionaires Index, with an estimated net worth of US$130 billion, and the fifth-wealthiest in the world according to Forbes, with an estimated net worth of $154 billion. Ellison is also known for his ownership of 98% of Lānaʻi, the sixth-largest island in the Hawaiian Islands. Early life and education Ellison was born on August 17, 1944, in New York City to Florence Spellman, an unwed Jewish mother. His biological father was an Italian American United States Army Air Corps pilot. After Ellison contracted pneumonia at the age of nine months, his mother gave him to her aunt and uncle for adoption. He did not meet his biological mother again until he was 48. Ellison moved to Chicago's South Shore, then a middle-class neighborhood. He remembers his adoptive mother, Lillian Spellman Ellison, as warm and loving, in contrast to his austere, unsupportive, and often distant adoptive father, who had chosen the name Ellison to honor his point of entry into the United States, Ellis Island. Louis Ellison was a government employee who had made a small fortune in Chicago real estate, only to lose it during the Great Depression. Although Ellison was raised in a Reform Jewish home by his adoptive parents, who attended synagogue regularly, he remained a religious skeptic. At age thirteen, Ellison refused to have a bar mitzvah celebration. Ellison states: "While I think I am religious in one sense, the particular dogmas of Judaism are not dogmas I subscribe to. I don't believe that they are real. They're interesting stories. They're interesting mythology, and I certainly respect people who believe these are literally true, but I don't. I see no evidence for this stuff." Ellison says that his fondness for Israel is not connected to religious sentiments but rather due to the innovative spirit of Israelis in the technology sector. Ellison attended South Shore High School in Chicago and later was admitted to University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign and was enrolled as a premed student. At the university, he was named science student of the year. He withdrew without taking final exams after his sophomore year because his adoptive mother had just died. After spending the summer of 1966 in California, he then attended the University of Chicago for one term, where he studied physics and mathematics and also first encountered computer design. He then moved to Berkeley, California and began his career as a computer programmer for different companies. Early career and Oracle 1977–1994 During the 1970s, after a brief stint at Amdahl Corporation, Ellison began working for Ampex Corporation. His projects included a database for the CIA, which he named "Oracle". Ellison was inspired by a paper written by Edgar F. Codd on relational database systems called "A Relational Model of Data for Large Shared Data Banks". In 1977, he founded Software Development Laboratories (SDL) with two partners and an investment of $2,000; $1,200 of the money was his. In 1979, the company renamed itself Relational Software Inc. Ellison had heard about the IBM System R database, also based on Codd's theories, and wanted Oracle to achieve compatibility with it, but IBM made this impossible by refusing to share System R's error codes. The initial release of the Oracle Database in 1979 was called Oracle version 2; there was no Oracle version 1. In 1983, the company officially became Oracle Systems Corporation after its flagship product. In 1990, Oracle laid off 10% of its workforce (about 400 people) because it was losing money. This crisis, which almost resulted in the company's bankruptcy, came about because of Oracle's "up-front" marketing strategy, in which sales people urged potential customers to buy the largest possible amount of software all at once. The sales people then booked the value of future license sales in the current quarter, thereby increasing their bonuses. This became a problem when the future sales subsequently failed to materialize. Oracle eventually had to restate its earnings twice, and had to settle class-action lawsuits arising from its having overstated its earnings. Ellison would later say that Oracle had made "an incredible business mistake". Although IBM dominated the mainframe relational database market with its DB2 and SQL/DS database products, it delayed entering the market for a relational database on Unix and Windows operating systems. This left the door open for Sybase, Oracle, Informix, and eventually Microsoft to dominate mid-range systems and microcomputers. Around this time, Oracle fell behind Sybase. From 1990 to 1993, Sybase was the fastest-growing database company and the database industry's darling vendor, but soon it fell victim to merger mania. Sybase's 1996 merger with Powersoft resulted in a loss of focus on its core database technology. In 1993, Sybase sold the rights to its database software running under the Windows operating system to Microsoft Corporation, which now markets it under the name "SQL Server". In his early years at Oracle, Ellison was named an Award Recipient in the High Technology Category for the Ernst and Young Entrepreneur of the Year Program. 1994–2010 In 1994, Informix overtook Sybase and became Oracle's most important rival. The intense war between Informix CEO Phil White and Ellison was front-page Silicon Valley news for three years. In April 1997, Informix announced a major revenue shortfall and earnings restatements. Phil White eventually landed in jail, and IBM absorbed Informix in 2001. Also in 1997, Ellison was made a director of Apple Computer after Steve Jobs returned to the company. Ellison resigned in 2002. With the defeat of Informix and of Sybase, Oracle enjoyed years of industry dominance until the rise of Microsoft SQL Server in the late 1990s and IBM's acquisition of Informix Software in 2001 to complement their DB2 database. As of 2013 Oracle's main competition for new database licenses on UNIX, Linux, and Windows operating systems comes from IBM's DB2 and from Microsoft SQL Server. IBM's DB2 still dominates the mainframe database market. In 2005, Ellison agreed to settle a four-year-old insider-trading lawsuit by offering to pay $100 million to charity in Oracle's name. In 2005, Oracle Corporation paid Ellison a $975,000 salary, a $6,500,000 bonus, and other compensation of $955,100. In 2007, Ellison earned a total compensation of $61,180,524, which included a base salary of $1,000,000, a cash bonus of $8,369,000, and options granted of $50,087,100. In 2008, he earned a total compensation of $84,598,700, which included a base salary of $1,000,000, a cash bonus of $10,779,000, no.... Discover the Ashlee Craft popular books. Find the top 100 most popular Ashlee Craft books.
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Dancing In the Sunlight
Ashlee Craftpacking my bags in the early morning light, packing everything I will need for my journey in my old worn suitcase & walking out the front door & into the light of the newbo...
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Four Seasons
Ashlee CraftA collection of all of the Four Seasons books including nine bonus poems.Four Seasonsthe magic of fall & the falling of leavesthe changing of seasons & the changing of tree...
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Spring
Ashlee CraftThe air is filled with the sweet aroma of fresh flowers & the sound of new life. The snow is melting, leaving behind puddles of cool water and making way for the joys of spring...
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Reflections in the Green Triangle
Ashlee CraftReflections in the Green Triangle is a collection of 36 abstract poems that will stimulate your imagination & lighten your day.
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Pressure Point
Ashlee Craft"The room was dark and smoky. Abandoned chairs sat around a small table, and a broken light bulb dangled uselessly above it. Moments ago, the light had been lit, until the commotio...
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A Thousand Cranes, Volume 1
Ashlee Crafta thousand cranes / a thousand cranes of paper flying in a giant rippling cloud high in the sky / setting out to find their own waysShe, the artistpoet, once took a thousand sheets...
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Flowers, One
Ashlee CraftA zine featuring 24 photographs of flowers & three poems from photographer, writer, & zinemaker Ashlee Craft.
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Dark Hours
Ashlee CraftIt was just after midnight. The hallways of The Singing Bird apartment complex were nearly empty, and a deep silence filled the walls.Suddenly, a scream rang out through one of the...
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Summer
Ashlee CraftThe sun shines down upon your face as you dance in the field of sunflowers. The smell of freshly mown grass fills the air and the flavor of watermelon lingers in your mouth. You ru...
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The Allure of a Summer Evening
Ashlee CraftAshlee Craft makes her debut as a poet with this collection of thirtythree poems. Breaking free from the traditional confines of rhyme and meter, Ashlee Craft's poetry explores the...
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Samantha
Ashlee CraftPeople always said I was lucky, but just because you’re lucky doesn’t mean you’re happy with the way things are. Hayden lives with her aunt and uncle. Her dad sent her to live with...
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Shipwrecked
Ashlee CraftCaptain Holden burst from the cabin of the ship and onto the deck.“Tami, the ship is sinking! The hull is filling with water, and we’re going down fast!”Fear coursed through me, an...
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Four Roads to Freedom
Ashlee CraftFour Roads to Freedom is a collection of fortyfive poems exploring the beauty of life, self expression, and discovering who you are. Open your heart and your mind as you rediscover...
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New Life, New Day
Ashlee CraftBefore the New Lifereaching backwards towards the past you must end one chapterbefore you can begin the nextthe butterfly must shed the caterpillar’s skinbefore it can flythe sun m...
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Little Bird
Ashlee CraftLittle Bird is a collection of 58 poems to motivate and inspire you.From the book "the chains are goneI have decided to let go of what I was, so that I may embrace what I am yet to...
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Autumn
Ashlee CraftIn her freeform style of writing, Ashlee Craft's second poetry book features poems that let you feel the beauty and coziness of autumn. Let your mind soar with the falling leaves, ...
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Summer Poetry Art Book
Ashlee CraftThe sun shines down upon your face as you dance in the field of sunflowers. The smell of freshly mown grass fills the air and the flavor of watermelon lingers in your mouth. You ru...
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Strange Occurrences
Ashlee CraftThere are people in the world that seem to have everything a perfect life, a perfect family, and perfect friends. Cathy wasn’t one of those people.Cathy’s life had rapidly gone do...