Posted on 12/14/2004 3:58:41 PM PST by LurkedLongEnough
(12/09/04)—Oracle CEO Larry Ellison feels strongly about unified data hubs. In fact, he thinks the biggest terrorist attack in the United States could have been prevented if intelligence officials had been using a unified database from Oracle. “Had there been a hub … there would never have been a September 11,” Ellison said in his keynote speech at Oracle’s OpenWorld in San Francisco on Wednesday.
“Mohammed Atta passed through international customs, saying he was on holiday, while the police in Broward County (Fla.) had an outstanding warrant for his arrest,” he continued. Ellison’s example of a “terrorist hub” was one of several that he used to outline Oracle’s new vision of centralized databases; others included a financial consolidation hub for credit card companies and a financial services accounting hub for banks.
He referred to the global financial data hub, which can quickly check customers’ credit, as the “first modern information-age application … that dramatically changed commerce.”
Until now, Ellison said, vital information has been unavailable, spread out in hundreds of databases in bits and pieces. “If you could keep all your data in one place, you would have consistent, up-to-date information about your business at your fingertips,” he said.
To do this, he said, businesses have to convert from hundreds or thousands of databases to one consolidated database. Oracle itself just completed that process, which Ellison said took five years. To better face this daunting task, he said other businesses should copy their data to a central data hub while leaving existing systems intact for current users.
“The only way I know to build a system that scales – and never breaks – is to build it on top of a grid,” he said. “Grids are dramatically faster than mainframes.”
Burning Questions A conference attendee drew laughs from the packed crowd at the Moscone Center when he asked Ellison when he was going to buy the San Francisco 49ers football team. Ellison replied that the decision was out of his hands because the team owners refused to part with the team, which is 1-11 this season. “Clearly, it’s the worst team in football,” he said. He likened his desire to purchase the team to Oracle’s high-profile takeover bid for rival PeopleSoft. “Unfortunately,” he said, “[the 49ers aren’t] a publicly held company, so you can’t vote [the owners] out of there. ”
When questioned further about PeopleSoft, Ellison said Oracle planned to finish production on and deliver PeopleSoft 9, and he pledged support to PeopleSoft customers for the next 10 years. “After PeopleSoft 9, we are going to build a successor to both PeopleSoft and Oracle, so when people do their upgrade, they will get a dramatically different product,” he said.
I demand full disclosure!
Buy our stuff or Americans will die. What a jerk!!!
I wish data hubs would have prevented Eddie DeBartolo from having to hand over the Niners to his stupid sister and her incompetant husband! Wo is me!
What an asshat. Oracle does not sell the kind of technology required to do the type of mining required for this to have been realistic. Not that it is unusual for Larry to be stumping like this.
I wonder, does this mean that the FBI could charge him as an accessory to the hijacking conspiracy?
The culling and killing of all murderous muslim, subhuman filth from the world, would preclude 99.99999999999999% of all islamic terrorist attacks. The rest I can deal with with my Kimber.45, Class III AR-15s, and Class III AR-10.
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Ummmm, no; no it's not. I won't go into *what it is*, as I'd probably get in trouble... aw, what the heck:
Islam, The Cult of Murder™.
Islam, The Cult of Terror™.
Islam, The Cult of Boy-Buggering™.
Islam, The Cult of Women-Chattelling™.
Islam, The Cult of Horror™.
Islam, The Cult of Rape™.
Islam, The Cult of Ritual Killing™.
Islam, The Cult of Beheading™.
Islam, The Cult of Deviants™.
Islam, The Cult of Hate™.
Islam, The Cult of Lies™.
Islam, The Cult of Female Mutilation™.
Islam, The Cult of Death™.
Islam, The Cult of Christian & Jew Killing™.
Islam, The Cult of Infidel Murder™.
Islam, The Cult of The Mentally-Ill™.
Islam, the Cult of Evil™.
Islam, the Cult of Poverty™.
Islam, the Cult of Illiteracy™.
Islam, the Religion of Peace™, and THEY'LL KILL YOU TO PROVE IT!
Ellison has my vote as the billionaire most likely to end up as a supervillain. He may already be there.
I'm with you. Ellison isn a creep.
Oracle. A staff of 4 programmers and 24,239 salesmen.
Larry, "there would have never been a September 11," if private property owners, the airlines, were not unconstitutionally prohibited from asking their customers secure the aircraft from hijacking by allowing them to bring their arms on board.
We all know how crime has diminished in the states that have allowed conceal and carry.
The same principle applies to protecting an aircraft from being hijacked.
10, 30, 80 armed passengers is just the deterrent for hijackers to think about when analyzing the probability of a successful hijacking an aircraft.
Because the good citizens of U.S. were unconstitutionally disarmed, PLASTIC knife wielding Muslims were successful in their hijack attempt.
And Larry it is socialist/communist like you that have supported such stupidity in our country that made the actions of September 11th successful.
The fact is, consolidated databases have been a goal since the database was devised, in the 1970s.
The best we'll ever be able to do is the data warehouse with a unified view, and even that is light years from a consolidated database.
What Ellison means here is that the world should be on Oracle; gotta get everybody off of DB2 and SQL.
They just purchased their R&D personell from peoplesoft. So now they have 8 developers and 4 million salesmen. They still can't outsell SAP.
This coming from the CEO of a company that touted its Oracle product as "Unbreakable" in 2000-2001.
Meanwhile, the last patch cluster addressed anywhere from 65 to 83 vulnerabilities in the "unbreakable" product that Ellison sells. And a good number of them were remote compromise quality vulnerabilities; some of them remote root vulnerabilities.
Larry Ellison is an ass. I met him a couple years ago at the San Francisco Yacht Club and he was holding court with the most sycophantic group of yes men since Hitler's Henchmen. This is all my opinion, but the guy was a pompous fool who reminded me of the comic book store owner on The Simpsons.
I'm dumping my PeopleSoft after the buyout.
SAP can sell, for sure.
It's just that there is not a single SAP system anywhere in the world that is fully implemented.
SAP sells a shell that its consultants must charge by the hour to customize.
True about SAP. We've run Oracle ERP for the last 4 years. It works fine, if a bit complex to setup (since it is suited for a wide variety of businesses). The database and application servers only go offline when I tell them to.
(Insert snickers and laughs here)
So Larry, all the "databases" should send their data to your really big LARRYBase? What about the data that was just updated locally and not yet sent to the LARRYBase? Oh, the solution to that is to use SnORACLE on the local databases so they can all "talk" to LARRYBase? Uh huh. And eventually we will hear you say that there is no reason for all the databases. Just LARRYBase?
What Larry lacks in creativity and imagination he makes up for in hutzpuh. He's peopleSoft in the head.
It's one thing to read stupid sounding stuff. It is truly rare to read stupid nonsense on the scale of Ellison's statement.
What you see as a drawback, I see as the selling point. Sure SAP is always in some sort of development mode, but this adds to the 'robustness' of the tool to meet ongoing business demands. I was an SAP consultant, now I work for a company that wanted to buid a core-competancy within their IS. :)
SAP bump.
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