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9 unusual facts about Larry Ellison


A. Hari Reddi

Hari Reddi (born October 20, 1942) is a Distinguished Professor and holder of the Lawrence J. Ellison Endowed Chair in Musculoskeletal Molecular Biology at the University of California, Davis.

Andrew Serwer

During his tenure at the magazine, he wrote a number of cover stories including ones on Bill Gates, Larry Ellison, John Chambers, Cisco Systems, among many others.

Jon Bannenberg

Other impressive vessels since his death have been attributed to Bannenberg, including the largest private yacht in the world at the time (2002), Larry Ellison's Rising Sun.

From the 1970s onwards he designed large yachts for clients such as Larry Ellison, Malcolm Forbes, Bennett S. LeBow, Adnan Khashoggi and Robert Maxwell

Lanai City, Hawaii

However, in June 2012, Castle & Cooke sold its island possessions (totaling 98% of the island) to billionaire Larry Ellison for an undisclosed sum.

Mac NC

The device was widely promoted by then-Apple director Larry Ellison, apparently as part of his Oracle Network Computer initiative.

This didn't stop Oracle Corporation CEO and Apple board member Larry Ellison to announce in December 1997, while talking to the Harvard Computer Society, that Apple would release a product called the Macintosh NC in April 1998.

NCUBE

In 1988, Larry Ellison invested heavily into nCUBE and became the company's majority share holder.

UltraSPARC T1

In 2010, Larry Ellison announced that Oracle will offer Oracle Linux on the UltraSPARC platform, and the port is scheduled to be available in the T4 and T5 timeframe.


2003 America's Cup

On January 19, 2003 the Swiss challenger Ernesto Bertarelli’s Alinghi, skippered by Russell Coutts, won the Louis Vuitton Cup Finals by defeating the American challenger, Larry Ellison's Oracle, 5–1, once again eliminating the United States from the America's Cup competition.

Island Air

On January 18, 2013, Oracle Corporation CEO Larry Ellison, who had recently acquired most of the island of Lanai from David H. Murdock, was reported to be the buyer, though this was not confirmed by the airline at the time.

Ulitzer

Among the individuals Ulitzer claimed had contributed original articles are; Bill Joy, Bob Balaban, Brad Templeton, Bruce Campbell, Bruce Perens, Christopher Lambert, David Weber, Eric S. Raymond, James Gosling, John Edwards, Ken Thompson, Larry Ellison, Rob Malda, and Tim O'Reilly.


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