At an earlier-this-week press conference, Oracle CEO Larry Ellison announced the launch of its latest database-crunching machine called the SPARC Supercluster - Oracle's new enterprise computing system that amalgamates Sun Microsystems' processor architecture with UNIX-based Solaris operating system, and ZFS-based storage technology.

Speaking at an event for customers and media in Santa Clara, California, on December 2, Oracle CEO Larry Ellison tried to convince investors and customers to get behind his planned acquisition of Sun Microsystems, saying that Sun’s servers had set a new record for database performance.

Larry Ellison the Chief Executive Officer of Oracle Corp. on Monday, stood in the witness stand in Oakland and testified that the unauthorized copies of Oracle software that have been downloaded by SAP AG have a value of four billion dollars in terms of license fees.

With a jury trial scheduled to begin in a major copyright lawsuit next week, Oracle CEO Larry Ellison said on Tuesday that he has evidence to prove that the incoming Hewlett-Packard (HP) CEO Léo Apotheker oversaw a scheme aimed at stealing Oracle's intellectual property when Apotheker was leading Oracle's German rival SAP AG.

The Chief Executive Officer of the firm, Larry Ellison said that it was planning to acquire semiconductor firms and makers of industry.

The 66 year old Chief, while being at Oracle’s annual meeting in San Francisco said that people would see them buying chip firms.

Today Larry Ellison and Oracle will announce a detailed work plan for the combined Oracle/Sun entity, a partnership that Ellison first extended nine months ago. In that context, it's illuminating to analyze Oracle's transformative intentions for wanting to acquire Sun.

According to media reports, Oracle CEO and founder Larry Ellison recently revealed that the delay in the European Commission's (EC) antitrust review of Oracle's $7.4 billion takeover of Sun Microsystems is costing it $100 million a month.