This page has been archived and commenting is disabled.

Larry Ellison Steps Down As CEO Of Oracle

Tyler Durden's picture




 

Unlike Steve Jobs, who almost literally passed away engrossed by his lifetime legacy, his work, that "other" billionaire, Oracle's Larry Ellison, 70 years young, has decided to step aside and focus on the more enjoyable things in life, such as buying Hawaiian islands.

In his departure, he will be appointed to the title of Executive Chairman, and is replaced by Mark Hurd and Safra Catz as joint CEOs of the company.

Just out from the company:

The Oracle Board of Directors today announced that it has elected Larry Ellison to the position of Executive Chairman of Oracle's Board and appointed him the company's Chief Technology Officer. Jeff Henley, who has served as Oracle's Chairman for the last 10 years, was appointed Oracle's Vice Chairman of the Board.

 

The Oracle Board also promoted both Safra Catz and Mark Hurd to the position of CEO, Oracle Corporation. All manufacturing, finance, and legal functions will continue to report to Oracle CEO, Safra Catz. All sales, service and vertical industry global business units will continue to report to Oracle CEO, Mark Hurd. All software and hardware engineering functions will continue to report to Oracle Chairman and CTO, Larry Ellison.

 

"Safra and Mark will now report to the Oracle Board rather than to me," said Larry Ellison. "All the other reporting relationships will remain unchanged. The three of us have been working well together for the last several years, and we plan to continue working together for the foreseeable future. Keeping this management team in place has always been a top priority of mine."

 

"Larry has made it very clear that he wants to keep working full time and focus his energy on product engineering, technology development and strategy," said the Oracle Board's Presiding Director, Dr. Michael Boskin. "Safra and Mark are exceptional executives who have repeatedly demonstrated their ability to lead, manage and grow the company. The Directors are thrilled that the best senior executive team in the industry will continue to move the company forward into a bright future."

But don't cry for Larry: since he owns about 25% of the company, now that Oracle just announced another $13 billion buyback authorization, Larry will get just over $3 billion of that in the coming several quarters.

 

- advertisements -

Comment viewing options

Select your preferred way to display the comments and click "Save settings" to activate your changes.
Thu, 09/18/2014 - 16:09 | 5231252 ebworthen
ebworthen's picture

Another Robber Baron retires.

Where is Jon Corzine?

Thu, 09/18/2014 - 16:12 | 5231265 fightthepower
fightthepower's picture

We use their HR software, its a piece of shit. 

Thu, 09/18/2014 - 16:16 | 5231284 seek
seek's picture

LOL, Larry Ellison is the last person I'd expect to be connected to HR anything. He's a sexual harrassment nightmare.

Thu, 09/18/2014 - 16:21 | 5231304 AssFire
AssFire's picture

One Kinky Bastard.

Thu, 09/18/2014 - 16:28 | 5231318 Keyser
Keyser's picture

Dude looks good for 70, I had no idea he was that old... I guess that's what you get for being richer than god... 

Oh yeah, Peoplesoft sucks big time, but no where near as bad as SAP, holy bejesus... 

 

Thu, 09/18/2014 - 16:35 | 5231347 Grande Tetons
Grande Tetons's picture

Have you seen his tits! They are to die for. 

Thu, 09/18/2014 - 16:55 | 5231377 power steering
power steering's picture

So what you're tell me is, he's a fully functional transgender prick

Thu, 09/18/2014 - 17:34 | 5231545 WillyGroper
WillyGroper's picture

Seen Bruce Jenner?

He looks like he's trying to keep up with the Kardashians.

WTF is wrong with people?

Thu, 09/18/2014 - 17:54 | 5231605 Manthong
Manthong's picture

If you can pull it off, rent a Wrangler on Lanai.

Do the island in it, but most importantly, the mud trails up the steep the eastern side of the Lanaihale (inactive) volcano. The missus still hates me for that ride. She was screaming.. and I mean that in the sincerest, high dB way.

It rivals doing the Bavarian Alps autobahn in a big Mercedes at +200 clicks/hr and great sex for a life experience.,

BTW.. don't wear good clothes.. they will all be red from the dirt/dust when you get back to the hotel.

 

Thu, 09/18/2014 - 17:55 | 5231650 Keyser
Keyser's picture

and remember to wear sunscreen...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sTJ7AzBIJoI

 

 

Fri, 09/19/2014 - 06:24 | 5233093 svayambhu108
svayambhu108's picture

wrong thread

 

Thu, 09/18/2014 - 20:15 | 5232161 Uncle Remus
Uncle Remus's picture

LOL. +1000 for reminding me of a similar Maui experience.

[subconsciously strokes scar...]

Thu, 09/18/2014 - 16:58 | 5231421 seek
seek's picture

I have a friend who's net worth is closer to Larry's than mine, and a woman friend of his was asked out (and she accepted) by Ellison back in the '90s. The date ended with her running down the street outside Ellison's house with no shoes while screaming at a cab dispatcher. He wasn't really big on "no" as an answer.

You could also tell which women he'd slept with at Oracle by the sudden appearance of their new Mercedes in the parking lot.

Thu, 09/18/2014 - 17:08 | 5231445 Yes We Can. But...
Yes We Can. But Lets Not.'s picture

Ah, perhaps he attended Charm School with Bill Clinton, then.

Larry's big into pro tennis.  Wonder which one he's banging.  Me, Ana Ivanovic is the one I'd invite out to my Hawaiian island.

http://sommetsports.co.nz/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/Ana-Ivanovic.jpg

Thu, 09/18/2014 - 18:45 | 5231837 COSMOS
COSMOS's picture

Scarry she kind of looks like a young female version or Larry Ellison

Thu, 09/18/2014 - 18:21 | 5231753 Ratscam
Ratscam's picture

ORACLE
One Rich Asshole Called Larry Ellison

Thu, 09/18/2014 - 22:40 | 5232598 Vendetta
Vendetta's picture

You probably could tell which women said 'no' by their not returning on the boat they went out on the water with him.

Thu, 09/18/2014 - 16:22 | 5231306 Four chan
Four chan's picture

banging his model girlfriends, sailing his million dollar boat out to his millions of dollar boat, kudos larry you won the game.

Thu, 09/18/2014 - 16:29 | 5231325 Bangalore Equit...
Bangalore Equity Trader's picture

<--"POSTERBOY" for the ISIL?
<-- Great guy. Misunderstood.

Listen. Time to vote bitchez.

Thu, 09/18/2014 - 16:37 | 5231361 Dr. Kenneth Noi...
Dr. Kenneth Noisewater's picture

You forgot the fighter jets...

Thu, 09/18/2014 - 16:40 | 5231363 Emergency Ward
Emergency Ward's picture

As a bonus, he is a staunch supporter of the Obama/NSA surveillance state.  So he fucks his customers harder than he fucks his girlfriends.

Thu, 09/18/2014 - 16:37 | 5231359 ShrNfr
ShrNfr's picture

Well, that is being into human relations isn't it? Or he into goats too?

Thu, 09/18/2014 - 16:56 | 5231413 power steering
power steering's picture

You mean he's Greek also?

Thu, 09/18/2014 - 16:28 | 5231322 ebworthen
ebworthen's picture

"In modern U.S. parlance, the term since the mid-nineteenth century had also come to be used to describe unscrupulous industrialists...and stock speculators, who like the Germanic robber barons enriched their own pockets without adding to the common good by adding value."  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robber_baron

Sounds like Ellison and Oracle to me, and Corzine.

Thu, 09/18/2014 - 16:49 | 5231348 FreeSlave
FreeSlave's picture

Another jew   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Larry_Ellison "Larry Ellison was born in New York City to an unwed Jewish mother"

He is replaced by jewish Safra Katz   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Safra_A._Catz "Safra Ada Catz (born December 1, 1961) is an Israeli-born American business executive"

Thu, 09/18/2014 - 17:17 | 5231479 LasVegasDave
LasVegasDave's picture

Yeah, news flash; they are pretty fucking successful.

Sucks to be you.

Thu, 09/18/2014 - 18:49 | 5231847 COSMOS
COSMOS's picture

Successful as in Fed prints easy money that goes to Wall st which then makes cash available for the select few.  A circle of backslappers.  His products suck, but all his shit has backdoors just like the other software mofos.  Yeah he is a pretty successful criminal, another member of the J Mafia.  I wonder if his second passport is the same one as the guys at Google etc... or the ones at Goldman Sachs, who provide him with financing.  Or the ones in govt who give him the lucrative govt contracts.  He is another parasite that sucks the tax payer tit.  Just like Yellen.

Thu, 09/18/2014 - 20:22 | 5232186 geoffb
geoffb's picture

I thnk he sold a little software along the way too. Don't get me wrong Larry's a douche,

Thu, 09/18/2014 - 17:00 | 5231422 negative rates
negative rates's picture

They said you could catch him on twitcher.

Thu, 09/18/2014 - 17:26 | 5231516 rubiconsolutions
rubiconsolutions's picture

America's Cluck

Thu, 09/18/2014 - 19:05 | 5231906 post turtle saver
post turtle saver's picture

it's official... Oracle can now Hurd Catz

Thu, 09/18/2014 - 16:13 | 5231267 Seasmoke
Seasmoke's picture

What the fuck time is it in Scotland ???

Thu, 09/18/2014 - 16:14 | 5231276 Zero Govt
Zero Govt's picture

9pm

the vote has been rigged to a 'No' by the way

Thu, 09/18/2014 - 16:40 | 5231367 Carl Spackler
Carl Spackler's picture

Never underestimate the depth of reach to which the tentacles of Buckingham Palace may go... even to the underside of a Scotman's kilt !

 

 

Thu, 09/18/2014 - 17:51 | 5231622 Wait What
Wait What's picture

Bullish as a mother fucker!

Thu, 09/18/2014 - 16:15 | 5231282 ebworthen
ebworthen's picture

Nigel Farage on CNBC has some interesting comments on the Scottish independence vote - in a nutshell - saying that many of the "Yes" crowd are rabid socialists who will adopt the Euro and join the EU if they win.  Ick!

http://video.cnbc.com/gallery/?video=3000311901&play=1

Thu, 09/18/2014 - 16:41 | 5231369 Carl Spackler
Carl Spackler's picture

Out with the old and in with the new...same as it ever was !

Thu, 09/18/2014 - 16:15 | 5231280 LFMayor
LFMayor's picture

"He wants to keep working full time... "   what a motherfucking idiot.  

Thu, 09/18/2014 - 16:20 | 5231301 Ruffmuff
Ruffmuff's picture

He is not an idiot, it is all he knows. ANd is really good at it.  THe stardom of a billion dollars can motivate pretty much anyone. But missing some of the better, simpler things in life, is truely priceless.

Ok, he is still an idiot, good call.

Thu, 09/18/2014 - 16:16 | 5231281 seek
seek's picture

"Buying Hawaiian islands." Is that what they're calling it these days?

Thu, 09/18/2014 - 16:23 | 5231308 Kirk2NCC1701
Kirk2NCC1701's picture

Yes, the ultimate in Billionaire prepping:  King of an Island.

Thu, 09/18/2014 - 20:24 | 5232189 geoffb
geoffb's picture

I wish he would die in an autoerotic asphyxiation act.

Thu, 09/18/2014 - 16:20 | 5231300 Bangalore Equit...
Bangalore Equity Trader's picture

Listen. Now it is finally time for the "ROUND" the world sail-off between this POS, Larry and Hasso Plattner.

Don't cheat Larry.

Thu, 09/18/2014 - 16:28 | 5231323 PontifexMaximus
PontifexMaximus's picture

Smart guy u r. Where did u get that from?

Thu, 09/18/2014 - 16:33 | 5231335 Bangalore Equit...
Bangalore Equity Trader's picture

Listen. A fucking hydrofoil?! WTF? Total scumbag move, all joking aside.

Thu, 09/18/2014 - 16:21 | 5231303 replaceme
replaceme's picture

I thought he was the FoxPro guy?  Inside joke for db nerds.

Thu, 09/18/2014 - 16:25 | 5231314 Super Hans
Super Hans's picture

I heard that this guy and his company are evil to their cores.

SH

Thu, 09/18/2014 - 16:33 | 5231339 ebworthen
ebworthen's picture

O.T. - Jack Ma is one ugly m'fker.

Rich, but beaten with an ugly stick. Absolutely fugly.

http://images.businessweek.com/ss/08/09/0929_most_influential/image/jack_ma.jpg

Thu, 09/18/2014 - 16:56 | 5231410 Berspankme
Berspankme's picture

I actually met him one time in Hangzhou. He is just as ugly in person, but a rich mofo so he gets pussy anyways

Thu, 09/18/2014 - 16:36 | 5231351 XitSam
XitSam's picture

Has he committed to a suicde pact with Bill Gates as partial atonement for inflicting the public with the two worst software products ever, costing billions of man-hours wasted and trillions in lost productivity? 

Thu, 09/18/2014 - 16:40 | 5231366 Bangalore Equit...
Bangalore Equity Trader's picture

Listen. Don't forget. All NSA data is belongs to Larry.

Thu, 09/18/2014 - 19:23 | 5231989 XitSam
XitSam's picture

If it did, there would be no worries.

Thu, 09/18/2014 - 19:46 | 5232067 Bangalore Equit...
Bangalore Equity Trader's picture

Listen. They are called "Oracle Critical Patch Updates".

Thu, 09/18/2014 - 16:46 | 5231385 DarthVaderMentor
DarthVaderMentor's picture

The days of easy money and rock star CEOs are over. They will be shortly targets for the sheeple. He's heading for the hills. He knows what's coming and he wants to be out of the way. 

Thu, 09/18/2014 - 16:47 | 5231389 Phat Stax
Phat Stax's picture

His stax are so phat that he could hire all the hottest strippers in Atlanta to dance on his dinner table every night with the lint from his pockets.  He could fly the entire Cheetah III lounge to his house with bills he dropped on the floor walking to the bathroom.

Thu, 09/18/2014 - 20:10 | 5232137 oudinot
oudinot's picture

So what?

That's a legacy?

Thu, 09/18/2014 - 16:52 | 5231404 I woke up
I woke up's picture

We use Oracle E-business suite at work and it sucks.  Archaic GUI, we made one internally to interface that was more user friendly.  We were not well informed about functionality and found we had to buy additional modules.  The MRP system blows.

Thu, 09/18/2014 - 16:54 | 5231408 Frank N. Beans
Frank N. Beans's picture

hopefully Larry will get a boost in salary from the $1 a year he's been making.

 

Thu, 09/18/2014 - 16:55 | 5231409 Iriestx
Iriestx's picture

Jobs died because instead of treating his very treatable cancer with real medicine he tried to treat it with that hippie faggot buddist holistic medicine bullshit.  He literally killed himself because of his stupidity.

Thu, 09/18/2014 - 17:09 | 5231450 Bangalore Equit...
Bangalore Equity Trader's picture

Listen. What is more important is discovering how such a young vibrant man got "CANCER".

It's well know in Langley and Tel Aviv how to infect. With all that money and intelligence you think he would have been able to figure it out and react to those who killed him.

Thu, 09/18/2014 - 20:49 | 5232290 Infinite QE
Infinite QE's picture

He sure got sick quick after he told the NSA to feck off and wouldn't let them hard wire into the iPhone. As soon as he was out, bingo, in goes the Tel Aviv NSA.

Thu, 09/18/2014 - 17:11 | 5231452 power steering
power steering's picture

There's no cure for pancreatic cancer and the only treatment is a PS Hoffman dose of H.

Thu, 09/18/2014 - 17:17 | 5231478 gruden
gruden's picture

Pancreatic cancer is NOT an easily treatable cancer.  I had a relative who got it, was treated by 'real' medicine, even got into an experimental treatment (the regular treatments weren't helping) and died after a couple years.  Jobs lasted longer than she did and he regularly worked, so whatever it is he did helped him at least get the most of the time he had left.

Thu, 09/18/2014 - 17:56 | 5231653 greatbeard
greatbeard's picture

>> treating his very treatable cancer

1.8% five year survival rate.  Yeah, real survivable, Jackass.

 

>> real medicine he tried to treat it with that hippie faggot buddist holistic medicine

Well all get to live and die as we choose.  I suppose you'd be more comfortable with your right wing macho man Christian Corporate healthcare.  Choke on a dick, asshole.

And I'm no Jobs fan, not by a long shot. I just don't like who you are.

 

Thu, 09/18/2014 - 21:49 | 5232468 NickVegas
NickVegas's picture

My guess is you will live longer doing absolutely nothing, and you won't voluntarily spend the last days of your life fighting radiation poisoning or some other type of chemo poisoining. %1.8 tells me do absolutely nothing or try some Hippie Shit. I would smoke dope like fiend, hmmm, anti-cancer drug.

Thu, 09/18/2014 - 18:01 | 5231677 WillyGroper
WillyGroper's picture

You might want to rethink your medical belief. Sounds like you're parroting the MSM spew.

Check out Rockefellar Medicine or Death by Injection.

Just 2 examples for the Medical Industrial Complex: You are worth

$350K if you have cancer

$750K diabetes

Heaven help you if you become EHS. They don't have a fucking clue.

Thu, 09/18/2014 - 19:32 | 5232026 prymythirdeye
prymythirdeye's picture

Fuck you, you pharma pimping WHORE!

Thu, 09/18/2014 - 16:55 | 5231414 firestarter_916
firestarter_916's picture

Larry's walked away from mgmt roll before at Oracle, and the stock suffered.  But as much as people who work there don't like him, Mark Hurd The Turd is worse.  He singlehandedly destroyed what was left of HP's culture and employee morale. He cut benefits and paychecks while pumping up the stock to meet his executive compensation goals. Made over $100M in the 4 years he was there before getting fired. I feel sorry for the Oracle employees, Hurd will make certain their lives get more miserable.

Thu, 09/18/2014 - 17:12 | 5231460 Fuku Ben
Fuku Ben's picture

Another model citizen planning his future in Hawaii like Obola

Now I know you are all praying that Planet X actually exists and the resulting flood will cover Hawaii when it passes earth

Thu, 09/18/2014 - 18:03 | 5231682 WillyGroper
WillyGroper's picture

Are they Fukushima proof?

Thu, 09/18/2014 - 17:19 | 5231487 MedicalQuack
MedicalQuack's picture

Yeah I can agree on Larry's younger days and some of the stuff said here but he does have an engineer's brain and that's worth something, a lot as he's had to pull the company out a couple times.

I just figure he's tired of dealing with the board as they want miracles today and at 70 he's probably tired of it and he is the founder and brains and not a for hire CEO so I'll give him that for brains, otherwise there may not be an Oracle around today.

In his older years, earlier this year he did warn folks about being duped with virtual worlds and sucking into what artificial pieces of software can do to you and it's true and as an engineer he's right on.  Look how many folks live in a virtual world today and confuse it with real world values.  He'll now be the CTO so not going anywhere, just two other folks to deal with the Oracle board:)

http://ducknetweb.blogspot.com/2014/02/larry-ellison-ceo-oracle-hcm.html

Everyone thinks they are LeBron in the virtual world, but doesn't work that way in real world

Thu, 09/18/2014 - 17:40 | 5231578 Bangalore Equit...
Bangalore Equity Trader's picture

Listen. It's disgusting how Americans have their little idols isn't it "MEDICAL".

Lebron. lol. "Yo yo yo he be a balla yo."

Nice American, don't drone me ya perverted fuck.

Thu, 09/18/2014 - 17:44 | 5231591 Chuck Knoblauch
Chuck Knoblauch's picture

Hope the Chinese let him stay when Hawaii is converted to equity.

Thu, 09/18/2014 - 18:46 | 5231839 RaceToTheBottom
RaceToTheBottom's picture

I hope they take both that and Ted Turners quarter of a state, with all his buffalo

Thu, 09/18/2014 - 17:47 | 5231602 QEsucks
QEsucks's picture

Jobs had islet cell neuroendocrine ca of pancreas rather than garden variety pancreatic adenocarcinoma.

He had a pretty treatable condition but probably wasn't interested in hearing it from some bombastic prick oncologist.

So he died instead.

Thu, 09/18/2014 - 18:42 | 5231828 August
August's picture

Thanks for pointing that out, as there are about 15 major types of "pancreatic cancer", of greatly varying aggressiveness.

FWIW a friend of mine had a neuroendocrine cancer of the pancreas seven years ago, and looks and feels better than ever after her cure.

Thu, 09/18/2014 - 17:51 | 5231620 besnook
besnook's picture

larry is my new hero if he can keep interisland fares cheap.

Thu, 09/18/2014 - 18:40 | 5231821 studfinder
studfinder's picture

This:

 

"Oracle Corporation was given a contract by the State of Oregon's Oregon Health Authority (OHA) to develop Cover Oregon, the state's healthcare exchange website, as part of the U.S. Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act. When the site tried to go live on October 1, 2013, it failed, and registrations had to be taken using paper applications until the site could be fixed."

 

 

Thu, 09/18/2014 - 19:56 | 5232093 Stained Class
Stained Class's picture

The DEBT always remains.......

Thu, 09/18/2014 - 20:14 | 5232154 fishwharf
fishwharf's picture

Ellison treated San Francisco like the target of a hostile take over when he was negotiating terms for hosting the America's Cup.  It left many people, including me, with very negative feelings toward him.  I'm sorry his team won, and I'm still suspicious of the miraculous come from behind victory.

Thu, 09/18/2014 - 22:59 | 5232654 Equality 7-25-1
Equality 7-25-1's picture

Maybe he just hates California politicians and enjoys sticking it to them back. I know I do.

Thu, 09/18/2014 - 20:17 | 5232166 Uncle Remus
Uncle Remus's picture

I'm confused. Will Oracle suck more or less now?

Do NOT follow this link or you will be banned from the site!