Stonebraker, Mike, 61, 69, 72
Structured Query Language (SQL), 60–62, 69–70, 72, 98, 208, 237, 250
databases and, 186, 254–56, 264, 281, 450, 480
SUI-64, 455, 462, 464–67
Sun Microsystems, 2–4, 107n, 184, 250, 253–54, 262, 293, 369
competition between Microsoft and, 272–73
databases and, 187, 237, 258
finances of, 4, 157n, 472
slogan of, 2, 40
Ultimate of, 113
Sybase, 110
databases and, 40, 72–74, 76, 88, 98–100, 105–6, 264, 267
international presence of, 105–6
symmetrical multiprocessor (SMP) computers, 76
System R, 60, 62
systems integration, system integrators, 415, 419, 425, 431, 472
applications and, 48n–49n, 213–14, 218, 221n, 222, 225, 229
for best-of-breed systems, 6, 37, 43, 46–47, 49, 121–26, 127n, 128, 130, 202, 214, 217, 221n, 229, 240, 282, 298, 422
E-Business Suite and, 190–91, 196
Ellison’s attacks on, 200–201, 205–6, 239–40
and Oracle’s competition with IBM, 281–82
perfect storm and, 434, 441
Tandem Computers, 150, 298
Tatoosh, 455
Team New Zealand, 303, 454–55, 468
Team Sayonara, 303, 307, 322, 329
Techint Group, 245
Techtronics, 226
telecommunications, telecommunications industry, 106, 177, 185, 209–10, 217, 247, 279, 424, 472–73
applications in, 28–30
VOD and, 109–10
Telecommunications Act, 185
Tenet, George, 410
TenFold, 77, 87
terrorism, 400–407
casualties due to, 400–401
prevention of, 402–6, 410–14
on September 11, 2001, 400–401, 410, 413–14
Thinking Machines, 394
Thompson, David, 304–5, 310–11
Thompson, Tommy, 408–10, 412, 451
Thomson, John, 95
Time Warner, 109, 279
Tom Peddersen Associates, 67
Torman, Stacey, 24–25
Toy Story, 364
Trading Community Architecture (TCA), 193, 423
Trans-Pac, 305, 324
Tru64 operating system, 278
Tse, Nancy, 13, 17–18
TSW, 124
Tung, C. H., 16
Tungsram Lighting, 228
Turner, Mark “Tugboat,” 320, 323, 327
Twain, Mark, 333
UBS PaineWebber, 415
UNIX, 39, 66, 253–54, 479
applications market and, 112, 144
databases and, 72, 98, 235, 237, 249–50, 254, 260, 280–82, 283n
and Oracle’s competition with Microsoft, 267
UPS, 407
Upside, 95
USA 49, 303–4
USA 61, 303–4
USA-71, 463
USA-76, 455–56, 459–60, 462–67
USA Today, 27–28
Vanderbilt, Cornelius, 370
Vanderbilt, William, 244
Vanity Fair, 366
Vava, 461
Ventura, Jesse, 397
Verio, 225
Veritas, 104, 179, 293
video-on-demand (VOD), 106–10, 358
Viola, Lawrence, 360
Virtual Address Extension (VAX), 65
Visa, 404, 411
Wagner, Mitch, 177
Walker, Jeff, 76–82, 91, 93–94, 100, 105, 112–13
Ellison’s relationship with, 149
firing of, 113
management style of, 113, 117n
Oracle’s applications business and, 112, 117n
Oracle’s crash and, 81–82, 84–85, 89
Walker Interactive, 77
Wall Street Journal, The, 24, 38, 206, 266n, 287, 297, 359
Ellison’s op-ed piece in, 403–6, 411, 413
Wang, Patrick, 14–15
Wang, Xiao-Chu, 12
Washington Post, 362
Wasserman, Paul, 361
Watson, Thomas, Jr., 55, 280, 284
Webvan, 240
Weinbach, Art, 416
Wei Zhang, 20
Welch, Jack, 227–29
Wells Fargo, 220, 225
Western Digital, 244
Wharf Group, 16–17
Whitbread races, 309
White, Karen, 149–50
Wilkins, Ivor, 463
Williams, Derek, 13–14, 17, 19, 22
Wilson, Steve, 305
Wohl, Ron, 23, 154, 164–66, 484
E-Business Suite and, 190, 192–93, 196, 203, 420–23, 429, 476
Ellison’s relationship with, 193
Lane’s relationship with, 118–22, 131–35, 147–48, 422
management style of, 117n, 118, 143, 145–46
Nippon Steel negotiations and, 91, 117
Oracle’s applications business and, 117–23, 127, 131, 133–35, 143, 145–49, 165–66, 169, 209, 420–23, 429–32
on Siebel, 474
Wolfe, Tom, 368n
Wood, Mel, 375
Wookey, John, 406–7, 432, 484
World Trade Organization (WTO), 16, 20
World Wide Web, see Internet
Wu, Peter, 16–17
Wurster, Bill, 378
Wylie, Andrew, xi–xii
Xerox, 29, 69, 98
Xu Kuang Di, 21–22
Yahoo!, 14, 42, 55, 184, 273
Young, Jeremy, 197–98
Young, John, 139
Zeman, Andrea, 357, 361–62
Zhu Rongji, 21
Zito, Kelly, 208
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Symonds, Matthew.
Softwar : an intimate portrait of Larry Ellison and Oracle / Matthew Symonds with commentary by Larry Ellison.
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1. Ellison, Larry. 2. Oracle Corporation—History. 3. Computer software industry—United States—History. 4. Businessmen—United States—Biography.
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