Larry's Grandstand Play

摘要

Oracle's hostile takvover BID for PeopleSoft has sparked a flurry of media coverage in the past 10 days ― predictably so. The story has the classic elements of a made-for-TV movie: a dramatic surprise attack, high-stakes finance with antitrust overtones, executive power struggles and a quirky cast of combative CEOs. But the undisputed star of this show has been Oracle CEO Larry Ellison, an insatiable attention-seeker who obsesses over the tactics of Japanese feudal warlords and who shopped for his fourth wife on the Oprah show a few years back.