[AccessD] Larry Ellison - was Access 2007 Application Deployedon Access2010

I do not think that Larry Ellison's stance has much to do with his success.

What he has done is build the industry standard in databases, Oracle. After
that he trained and then protected all the techs who work with the product.
As a result, anywhere you go, an Oracle certified tech makes a very decent
wage. All other certifications are hardly worth the paper they are printed
on as they have a short life-span and the market quickly becomes flooded
with the hot one. 

Larry in his infinite wisdom, has kept the certifications limited, sponsored
only certified techs and protected them from outside training companies.
Companies who run Oracle databases are not the real owners of the product,
Oracle is. 

Jim  

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[mailto:accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Mark Simms
Sent: Saturday, March 17, 2012 9:54 AM
To: 'Access Developers discussion and problem solving'
Subject: Re: [AccessD] Larry Ellison - was Access 2007 Application
Deployedon Access2010

I can continue to remain in awe of Larry Ellison's ability to piss people
off, get away with it, and even PROSPER from his actions. If I do something
even remotely stupid, I'm either in the dog house or in jail with a steep
fine.
Must be great to be a 1 percenter ! Still, I'm glad they got back at
him...for they "knew" he was not going to grow OpenOffice much. Larry buys
entities only for the purpose of eliminating competition. Everyone knows
that.
Whereas Steve Jobs may have been the most revered executive in the tech
world, Larry has got to be the most hated.
Sorry for the weekend "soap box" rant.

> Just a note, for those thinking of going to OpenOffice, the open source
> product now owned by Oracle, it would be recommended you try LibreOffice
> (http://www.libreoffice.org/). It seems that Oracle angried the
> original team of developers when they acquired OpenOffice (The new company
even
> scooped some of Oracles development team...a bit of insult to injury)
> from Sun and most of the team branched off and continued their own
version.
> Jim


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