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.
You of course, know the difference between God and Larry Ellison?
No disagreement here by the way.
We will rue the day we allow the federal government to build The Matrix that knows all and sees all. It will stop terrorism, all right. It will stop a lot of things. "The Treasury Department has notified the Department of Health Care that you consumed a Taco Bell burrito on 9/17/2009 at 12:37pm in Wichita, KS. Please be advised that further violations of the Health Nanny Rules will result in your termination from National Health Care." |
I worked for IBM when Systems Network Architecture was the jobs creation machine for thousands of Network specialists within the Fortune 1000.
Is Ellison the guy who got the exemption from the San Jose airport so he could fly his Gulfstream in after 11:00 at night?
Would not be suprised to find that out. Don't have specifics at this time.
What an F'n idiot. Nothing like crying 9-11 when you try to hock your wares. I hope he gets nasty case of the flu.
Apparently suffering from delusions of something or other I see.....
I worked for a tech company once and when we found out our software was being looked at for a missle program several of us immediately moved into caves for safety. We knew exactly how dangerous that would have been ;-)
Of course … God doesn't think that he is Larry Ellison.
Imagine if we arrested every person whose papers weren't in perfect order.
What a myopic moron.
Ping
Isn't this the guy who was ready to due the national ID card w/database to the feds for free?
Pitiful! This is the guy who attacked Microsoft. Maybe if he's spent more time lobbying for his product insteading of trying to destroy Microsoft ........?
Hey, to everyone dissing Larry, what's the name of your software company?
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The lack of a "hub" was no technology issue. It was the law. The CIA couldn't tell the FBI what it knew because that would be interfering in domestic law enforcement. The FBI couldn't tell the Customs Service about the Broward County warrant.