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Larry Ellison

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Larry Ellison
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Lawrence Joseph "Larry" Ellison was born on August 17, 1944 in Bronx, New York. In 1977, Ellison and two of his Ampex colleagues, Robert Miner and Ed Oates, founded their own company, Software Development Labs. In 1979, the company was renamed Relational Software Inc., later renamed Oracle after the flagship product Oracle database. From the beginning, Ellison served as Chief Executive Officer. Ellison had come across a paper called "A Relational Model of Data for Large Shared Data Banks" by Edgar F. ("Ted") Codd, describing a concept Codd had developed at IBM. Codd's employers saw no commercial potential in the concept of a Structured Query Language (SQL), but Larry Ellison did.

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Ellison and his partners won a two-year contract to build a relational database management system (RDBMS) for the CIA and that project was named "Oracle".

He served as President of Oracle from 1978 to 1996, and undertook two stints as Chairman of the Board, from 1990 to 1992, and again from 1995 to 2004.

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http://jobsearchtech.about.com/od/historyoftechindustry/a/larry_ellison.htm

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Larry_Ellison