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Oracle founder shares secrets of success
February 13, 2009
I often say that when you think you have this really great idea and everyone else thinks you're nuts, there's one or two possibilities. You have a really great idea; the other possibility is you're nuts.
We will still be enormously profitable and by far the most profitable enterprise software company.
I've run engineering since day one at Oracle, and I still run engineering. I hold meetings every week with the database team, the middleware team, the applications team. I run engineering, and I will do that until the board throws me out of there.
We used to have a rule at Oracle to never hire anybody you wouldn't enjoy having lunch with three times a week. Actually, we are getting back to some of our original ideals these days.
What we wanted to do was create an environment where not only were the people talented--and I think that is very important, so I can rely on your competence and your industry to do your part of the job, so we can work together as a team, so I can trust you. You will do what you say you are going to do.
Image: Ellison introduces the extreme performance HP Oracle database machine. | Photograph: Robert Galbraith/Reuters
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