“ I’ve thought a lot about why Oracle was successful. I really think that it was Larry Ellison. There were a lot of other databases out there that we beat. It was really Larry’s charisma, vision, and his determination to make this thing work no matter what. It’s just the way Larry thinks. I can give you an example of his thought processes: We had space allocated to us, and we needed to get our terminals strung to the computer room next door. We didn’t have anywhere to really string the wiring. Larry picks up a hammer, crashes a hole in the middle of the wall, and says, ‘There you go.’ It’s just the way he thinks—make a hole, make it happen somehow.”
—Bruce Scott, Coarchitect and Coauthor of the first three versions of Oracle Database
