ORACLE WHY IT'S COOL AGAIN

摘要

For the past decade, Lawrence J. Ellison has been Silicon Valley's Bad Boy. The chairman of No. 2 software maker Oracle Corp. watched with unbridled envy as the PC industry became the most powerful force in the Information Age—and William H. Gates III and his Microsoft Corp. along with it. But Oracle, after its initial success as a flashy Silicon Valley startup, seemed stuck in Dullsville. The company's database software, with its ability to organize reams of information, was a crucial but oh-so-boring adjunct to grey-flannel-suit corporate computing.