American entrepreneur who co-founded Oracle — the dominant enterprise database company — and built it through relentless sales aggression, competitive brinksmanship, and a genuine technical conviction that relational databases would become the core infrastructure of every large organization.
Built Oracle as the dominant enterprise database by combining genuine technical vision (the relational database as universal business infrastructure) with extreme sales aggression — the Oracle sales culture under Ellison being one of the most demanding and effective enterprise sales organizations in history.
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