> Visit the official Oracle site for more about Larry Ellison.

> Ellison's 1996 speech to the Commonwealth Club was reported in ZDNet, as an attack on Microsoft.

> Is Larry Ellison now the richest man in the world, following Microsoft's share price tumble? The Register thinks it's possible.

> The factor driving Oracle's success in the past few years was Ellison's embrace of the Internet, utilizing Oracle's databasing software to become the power behind the web.