Softwar: An Intimate Portrait of Larry Ellison and Oracle - Couverture rigide

Symonds

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 074322504X ISBN 13 : 9780743225045

Editeur : Simon & Schuster, 2003

Synopsis

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A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur

In a business where great risks, huge fortunes, and even bigger egos are common, Larry Ellison stands out as one of the most outspoken, driven, and daring leaders of the software industry. The company he co-founded and runs, Oracle, is the number one business software company. Perhaps even more than Microsoft's, Oracle's products are essential to today's networked world.
In Softwar, journalist Matthew Symonds gives readers exclusive and intimate insight into both Oracle and the man who made it and runs it. As well as relating the story of Oracle's often bumpy path to industry dominance, Symonds deals with the private side of Ellison's life. With unlimited insider access granted by Ellison himself, Symonds captures the intensity and, some would say, the recklessness that have made Ellison a legend.
With a new and expanded epilogue for the paperback edition that tells the story behind Oracle's epic struggle to win control of PeopleSoft, Softwar is the most complete portrait undertaken of the man and his empire -- a unique and gripping account of both the way the computing industry really works and an extraordinary life.

Revue de presse

The New York Times The access [Symonds] got is apparent....This access gives the reader a rare window on Ellison's mind.

Harvard Business Review A sympathetic and revealing portrait of an idiosyncratic executive and company....Entertaining.

Lisa Baertlein Reuters Software titan Larry Ellison has been busy scribbling footnotes to the most detailed account yet of his outsized life....He also responds and sometimes challenges the account of author Matthew Symonds -- a twist in presentation that adds a real-time feel to the 500-page biography.

Financial Times An unusually candid study of how a tiny start-up...grew -- sometimes painfully -- into a Silicon Valley institution.

BusinessWeek Symonds excels at letting readers into the 59-year-old Ellison's often turbulent personal life....[and] provides a wonderful image of an Ellison who is far from being all-business.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Simon & Schuster
• Date d'édition: 2003
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 074322504X
• ISBN 13: 9780743225045
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 508
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible