Larry Ellison
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LARRY ELLISON  wiki  papers on his house are in my paper files.</p>
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born 1944.  Oracle.</p>
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3rd richest American  worth 27B.  Own 23% of Oracle.  Jewish.
born to 19 year old unwed Jewish mother.  grew up in lower middle class neighborhood pop. by Jews.
Russian Jews</p>
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Married to Melanie Craft.   Friend is Steve Jobs..</p>
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Once Informix and Sybase were defeated, Oracle enjoyed years of industry dominance until the rise of Microsoft's <a title="SQL Server" href="/wiki/SQL_Server">SQL Server</a> in the late 90s and IBM's acquisition of Informix Software in 2001 to complement their DB2 database. Today Oracle's main competition for new database licenses on UNIX, Linux, and Windows operating systems is with IBM's DB2, the open source database MySQL (bought by Sun in 2008), and with Microsoft SQL Server (which only runs on Windows). <b>IBM's DB2 still dominates the mainframe database market.</b></p>
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Main competition if IBM DB2, open source  MySQL and Microsoft SQL Server.</p>
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Ellison styled his estimated $200 million <a title="Woodside, California" href="/wiki/Woodside,California">Woodside, California</a> estate after feudal Japanese architecture, complete with a man-made 2.3-acre (9,300 m<sup>2</sup>) lake and the most extensive <a title="Seismic retrofit" href="/wiki/Seismic_retrofit">seismic retrofit</a> available with current technology (<img class="noprint" mapparam="37.41231666666666-122.24761111111111_600_400_en_1_en" title="show location on an interactive map" height="18" alt="" width="18" src="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/9a/Erioll_world.svg/18px-Erioll_world.svg.png" /><a class="external text" rel="nofollow" href="http://stable.toolserver.org/geohack/geohack.php?pagename=Larry_Ellison&params=37_24_44.34_N_122_14_51.40_W" title="http://stable.toolserver.org/geohack/geohack.php?pagename=Larry_Ellison&params=37_24_44.34_N_122_14_51.40_W">37°24′44.34″N 122°14′51.40″W / 37.4123167, -122.2476111</a>). In 2004 and 2005, Ellison purchased more than 12 properties in <a href="/wiki/Malibu,California" title="Malibu, California">Malibu, California</a> worth more than $180 million. The $65 million Ellison spent on five contiguous lots on Malibu's Carbon Beach was the most costly residential transaction in United States history until <a class="mw-redirect" href="/wiki/Ron_Perelman" title="Ron Perelman">Ron Perelman</a> sold his <a href="/wiki/Palm_Beach,Florida" title="Palm Beach, Florida">Palm Beach, Florida</a>, compound for $70 million later that same year, according to industry writer Jeffrey Bellamar.<sup class="noprint Template-Fact">[<a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><i>citation needed</i></a>]</sup> His entertainment system cost $1 million, and included a rock concert-sized video projector at one end of a drained swimming pool and turned the gaping hole into a giant subwoofer<a href="#cite_note-7" title=""><sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-7">[8]</sup></a>.</p>
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