Agreed. I think Ellison should have sold when his company was worth something. Before the clouds rolled in.
A lot of cloud providers are using Oracle database software. It is fussy, but it scales. MySQL is a different animal, and Oracle never figured out what to do with it, which is why MariaDB has a growing following. Oracle admins and developers get paid well, as there are plenty of installations, and not just in government.
The irony is that Ellison always thought the PC was the wrong tool to emphasize, and this tyoe of thinking is what is behind a lot of the cloud/thin client mindset (that I do not share)
That is exactly what I told Larry Ellison when he and I had drinks at the Oak Room at The Plaza in NYC in the early 80's when Oracle was worth less than $100 Million and he wanted me to join him at Oracle {I was wrong and so are you}.
Ellison was pussy dawg when he was younger, but he is a multi-billionaire, and the poster at FR called "ComputerGuy" is offering him financial advice.
He didn't listen to me, face to face, and he doesn't even know that you post financial advice to billionaires on an obscure blog that can't even raise $88K per quarter.
You should donate $25,000 to FR, and then give financial advice.