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사업가 · 현대
래리 엘리슨
b. 1944
주요 업적 분야
아직 성격 매칭에 포함되지 않았습니다 — 기록된 근거가 성격 모델 전체를 다루기에는 충분하지 않습니다. 이 페이지의 다른 모든 내용은 자유롭게 확인하실 수 있습니다.
핵심 특성
주요 업적
그는 1977년 밥 마이너, 에드 오츠와 함께 소프트웨어 디벨롭먼트 래버러토리스를 공동 창업했다. 이 회사가 훗날 오라클이 되었고, 그는 사장으로서 컨설팅에서 출발한 회사를 데이터베이스 사업으로 키웠다.
미국 국가연구회의에 따르면 오라클은 IBM이 SQL 제품을 시장에 내놓기 전에 SQL 호환 관계형 데이터베이스를 개발해 팔기 시작했다. 1983년 C 언어로 다시 쓴 버전 3은 여러 컴퓨터 제조사의 기종에서 돌아가게 해 주었다.
오라클은 이후 인수로 성장했다. 테크크런치 집계로 2004년 이후 약 450억 달러를 썼고, 여기에는 103억 달러의 피플소프트와 74억 달러의 선 마이크로시스템스가 포함된다. 엘리슨은 2011년 오라클의 퍼블릭 클라우드 서비스를 발표했다.
삶의 장면들
데이터베이스를 이식 가능하게 만들기 위해 회사는 당시 새 언어였던 C로 수년에 걸쳐 다시 썼고 그동안 새 기능 개발을 멈췄다. 해당 글에 따르면 엔지니어 브루스 스콧이 이를 밀었고 엘리슨은 더 빠른 VAX 이식을 원한 공동 창업자 마이너 대신 스콧을 지지했다.
이는 길고 비용이 큰 기술적 도박을 받아들이려는 태도와 부합한다. 위험 감수
2008년 9월 그는 애널리스트들에게 클라우드 컴퓨팅이 '완전한 헛소리'이며 오라클은 광고 문구 정도만 바꾸면 된다고 말했다. 2011년 10월 그는 오라클의 자체 퍼블릭 클라우드 서비스를 발표했다.
이는 처음에 일축하던 입장에서 뒤늦게 방향을 바꾼 것과 부합한다. 적응력
전환점
초기 몇 해 동안 계약 소프트웨어 컨설팅 회사였던 창업자들은 컨설팅을 접고 IBM이 발표한 시스템 R 연구를 바탕으로 관계형 데이터베이스 제품을 만드는 쪽으로 돌아섰고, 첫 고객은 CIA였다.
이는 더 큰 회사가 아직 내놓지 않은 연구에서 상업적 기회를 포착하는 능력과 부합한다. 기회 감지
비슷한 인물
전체적인 프로필이 이 사람과 닮은 사람들이에요.
출처
- Larry Ellison (Q92759) -- verified live via the Wikidata API (2026-10-24): English label 'Larry Ellison', description 'American internet entrepreneur and businessman (born 1944)', Korean label '래리 엘리슨', born 17 August 1944, no death date, citizenship United States. Orientation only; not used as support for any row.
- National Research Council, 'The Rise of Relational Databases', chapter 6 of Funding a Revolution: Government Support for Computing Research (National Academy Press, 1999): the relational database industry as a combination of industrial research, government-funded academic work and commercial competition; IBM's System R and its SQL, Berkeley's Ingres and QUEL; 'Oracle, founded by Larry Ellison, developed and began selling an SQL-compatible product even before IBM had an SQL product in the market', Ellison having learned of SQL through the System R team's publications; IBM compelled to ship SQL/DS by competing vendors; SQL's standardisation over QUEL. CANONICAL SIGNIFICANCE SOURCE. Institutional history of the field written by an outside committee; names Ellison in one passage, so it supports the significance of Oracle's early commercial move rather than any trait beyond it; read in full via local text extraction.
- Commoncog Case Library, 'When Databases Were a Hot Technology: The Rise of Oracle' (updated after September 2025, read in full): Ellison's path through Amdahl, Ampex and Omex; the 1977 founding of Software Development Laboratories with Bob Miner and Ed Oates and the 60/20/20 equity split Ellison proposed; the Oates/Miner/Bruce Scott team; a $400,000 bid at a third of the next lowest; the decision to build a relational database from IBM's System R papers for minicomputers; first customer the CIA and the 1979 renaming to Relational Software; cash running short while government payment took six to nine months and salaries being stopped; the rewrite of the database in C (version 3 in 1983) pushed by Scott and backed by Ellison, with feature work frozen for years; building a sales force; competitors Cullinet, Ingres (faster growth in 1984), Sybase (client/server lead, later unforced errors); SQL's adoption as ANSI standard in 1986; the 1986 IPO and Ellison's claim the company would double revenue every year ('a propensity for grandiosity and a penchant for hyperbole'). Analytical business-history essay that states it draws mostly on Matthew Symonds's authorised biography Softwar (so partly Ellison's own account) -- counted as ONE perspective with the Philstar and CBS self-account pieces for behavioural claims; its competitor narrative is the counter-voice.
- Philippine Star, 'Ellison recounts early days of Oracle', 26 November 2007 (report of Ellison's Oracle OpenWorld keynote): Ellison's own account of the early company -- Ampex and Precision Instruments, the SDL bid, the $48,000 first sale to the CIA and installing it himself, a nine-month wait for payment, the decision to move from consulting to product, and why there was no Version 1. Journalist's report of the subject's own keynote (self-account); the passage in which he says the founders 'made up numbers' on a first balance sheet for a bank loan was read but NOT used for any row (self-told anecdote about financial statements, not independently documented).
- Charlie Rose, 'The World's Most Competitive Man', CBS News 60 Minutes (2003): Ellison on the America's Cup, Oracle as the world's second-biggest software maker behind Microsoft, saying 'I'm addicted to winning', his remark that Microsoft was 'three times bigger than we are', the competition creed he said he took from a Japanese executive ('anything less than 100 percent market share was not enough'), and his account of reading IBM's research and deciding 'we can beat IBM to market with IBM's own technology'. Television news profile built largely on the subject's own interview answers; the family and private-life passages and the yacht-racing and real-estate material were not used (a hobby and a private matter, not documented professional conduct).
- TechCrunch, '$45 Billion Later, Larry Ellison Says No Major Acquisitions For Next Few Years', 2 October 2012 (read in full): Oracle spending at least $45 billion on acquisitions since 2004 by the article's count (citing Wikipedia for the figures), the 2004 PeopleSoft purchase for $10.3 billion after a bitter takeover contest that began with a $13 billion bid in 2003, the US Justice Department's suit to block it rejected by a federal judge and the European Commission declining to block it, Ellison reportedly cutting half of PeopleSoft's workforce a month after the deal (per Wikipedia, as the article itself says), later Siebel, Hyperion, BEA, Sun Microsystems, RightNow and Taleo deals, the journalist's remark that the Sun deal led to dismantling its open-source heritage, and Ellison saying on CNBC there would be no major acquisitions for a few years. Tech-press roundup; its figures are second-hand from Wikipedia and its judgments are the writer's; litigation involving Oracle is context only and unscored.
- CIO Insight staff, 'Larry Ellison Sounds Off on Cloud Computing', 26 September 2008: Ellison's remarks at an Oracle financial-analyst meeting that 'we've redefined cloud computing to include everything we currently do', that the industry is 'more fashion-driven than women's fashion' and that cloud talk is 'complete gibberish'. Short news item quoting him verbatim; read in full.
- Sipho Hlongwane, 'Oracle leaps into the cloud game too', Daily Maverick, 7 October 2011: Ellison announcing Oracle's public cloud service at OpenWorld not three years after calling the term 'complete gibberish', describing Oracle's cloud as both platform and application service built on industry standards, and criticising rival cloud providers (calling Salesforce a 'roach motel'); the writer calls him 'famously tactless'. Short South African business-press commentary; a critical reading of the reversal, read in full.
- Wikimedia Commons file page 'Larry Ellison 2013 (9887589546).jpg' and the Flickr photo page of the Oracle PR account (live check 2026-10-24) -- checked for the portrait: photograph by Oracle PR, taken 23 September 2013, CC BY 2.0.




