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I did not realize, nor have I ever heard, that Oracle is best buddy with Apple? Why would that be so? I am not being sarcastic, just trying to broaden my knowle
by sigzero 16y ago
I did not realize, nor have I ever heard, that Oracle is best buddy with Apple? Why would that be so? I am not being sarcastic, just trying to broaden my knowledge on the subject.
- vetinari 16y agoIt's more on personal (Jobs-Ellison) than company level.
- alecco 16y agoJobs was the "official photographer" at Ellison's wedding.
- alecco 16y agoAlso in 1997, Ellison was made a director of Apple Computer after Steve Jobs came back to the company. Ellison resigned in 2002, saying that he did not have the time to attend necessary formal board meetings.
- protomyth 16y agoLarry Ellison is friends with Steve Jobs and even threatened to buy Apple for Steve Jobs. Check news from the 1996-1997 era about Apple's buying of NeXT. I really don't think that is in play here. Although, I really believe Adobe can shut it until they point to an open source Flash client that can be used with Hulu.
- j_baker 16y agoIf I recall correctly, the iMac started out as ellison's idea.
- protomyth 16y agoNot the actual released iMac, but the rumor was that its form was from a project at Apple started as a network computer (Ellison's thing at the time). http://www.macobserver.com/columns/1temporalloop/2007/05/15.1.shtml http://www.macobserver.com/columns/1temporalloop/2007/05/15....
- j_baker 16y agoNotice I said "started out". :-) Plus, what do you think the i stood for? And do you know of any other companies that put a superfluous i for internet in product names (or at least did at the time)?
- protomyth 16y agoSorry, I was just adding the link /info and didn't word it particularly well. (I did upvote you original from the 0 - don't know why someone would downvote it).