Success Stories Larry Ellison: Oracle Founder

Who does not know with Oracle? Oracle is a database software company in the world. Larry Ellison is the founder CEO of a big company. This time, he became one of the richest men in the world

Success Stories Larry Ellison: Oracle Founder


Behind, the success of Oracle, there are inspirational stories filled with struggle. Almost the same as Steve Jobs, Mark Zuckerberg, and Bill Gates, Larry Ellison also did not complete his studies. Larry Ellison was born in America in 1944 and has the full name of Lawrence Joseph Ellison. During childhood, he had a life different from the children of her age and less fun because at 9 months he was sentenced to suffer from pneumonia or pneumonia by doctors. Therefore, he was adopted by his uncle and aunt who live in Chicago.

Larry Ellison then attended school in Eugene Field elementary school equivalent to elementary school. Later he took part in the Sullivan High School and moved to the South Shore. While at school, he was known as a savvy student in natural sciences and mathematics. However, his attitude changed after learning that his parents now is not his biological parents. However, changes his position does not affect their progress. 

After graduation, he continued his school to the Illinois University and majored in physics. But the lecture he lives not complete because his adoptive mother died. He also worked with his father odd. He then continued his lectures at the University of Chicago, and he was forced to stop again due to cost.

Because motivated to survive, he then follows the computer courses. With a capital of the course, he then applied for the job to various companies. However many businesses declined because he only has a diploma course. Don't stop there, after trying on, Larry accepted at the local Fireman's Fund investment companies as a computer technician. In this company, he repaired the broken hardware. She also handles a variety of software problems. From this experience continues to grow and bring it up to as it is now.

Larry then quit and work at Wells Fargo Bank. Here he also became a computer technician and known to be very nimble. However, he got the award and got out and move to an Ampex and works as a programmer.

At Ampex, Larry found a piece of writing about the theory of relational databases written by Edgar F. Codd. This paper then makes it find the idea to build a business that has the concept of "Structured Query Language" or better known as SQL. He applied that concept to the system's database server and then name the project with Oracle.

Oracle project then continues with setting up software development company together with his friend Ed Qates and Robert Miner who is the boss Larry at Ampex. By building the US $2000, the company got major clients, the CIA which is a United States intelligence agency. After that, Oracle also handles airline Wright-Patterson Air Force Base and the computer company IBM.

Under his management, Oracle became the giant corporations that deal with the database. Although financial issues stumbled, then Oracle Relational Database market master. Products were belonging to Oracle Application Server form (Web DB, OAS), Development Tools (Oracle Developer, Oracle Designer), and Application Suite (Oracle Apps)

Oracle became the second largest company in the world after Microsoft and made Larry world's richest people. It includes the 10 most generous people in Forbes magazine's world wherein 2014, his fortune estimated a $27 billion dollars. Its success is thanks to the effort and his persistent during this time.

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