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Novelist Melanie Craft and Larry Ellison, businessman, entrepreneur, and co-founder, executive chairman and chief technology officer of Oracle Corporation. Oracle CEO and Stanford fan Larry Ellison, 59, waves as he sit next to his new wife, Melanie Craft, 34, during the Stanford basketball game against Arizona, Saturday, Feb. 7, 2004, in Stanford, Calif. Stanford defeated Arizona, 80-77. Ellison and Craft were married Dec. 18, 2003. (AP Photo/Paul Sakuma)
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9. Larry Ellison, 74,Oracle (software), $58.5 B Oracle CEO Larry Ellison gestures while giving a keynote address at Oracle OpenWorld in San Francisco, Tuesday, Oct. 2, 2012. Ellison says he plans to turn the Hawaiian island that he recently bought into a laboratory for experimenting with more environmentally sound ways of living. Ellison says he hopes to convert sea water into fresh water on the 141-mile-square (365-square-kilometer) mile island of Lanai. He also wants more electric cars on the island and hopes to increase its fruit exports to Japan and other markets. (AP Photo/Eric Risberg)
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Larry Ellison is co-founder of Oracle Corporation and was CEO from its founding until September 2014. He is the executive chairman and chief technology officer of Oracle. As of February 2017, he was listed by Forbes magazine as the fifth-wealthiest person in America and as the seventh-wealthiest in the world, with a fortune of $55 billion. Ellison was born in New York City but grew up in Chicago. He studied at the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign and the University of Chicago without graduating before moving to California in 1966. While working at Ampex in the early 1970s, he became influenced by Edgar F. Codd's research on relational database design, which led in 1977 to the formation of what became Oracle. Oracle became a successful database vendor to mid- and low-range systems, competing with Sybase and Microsoft SQL Server, which led to Ellison being listed by Forbes as one of the richest men in the world
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FILE - In this Sept, 24, 2008 file photo, Oracle CEO Larry Ellison, right, and (then) Hewlett Packard CEO Mark Hurd, on screen, smile during the Oracle Open World conference in San Francisco. As co-president at Oracle Corp., ousted Hewlett-Packard Co. CEO Mark Hurd will have to adapt to a new role playing second fiddle to one of Silicon Valley's most domineering bosses _ Larry Ellison. (AP Photo/Paul Sakuma, file)
