Winning a negative-sum game is a pyrrhic victory [1]. Charitably I'd call Larry Ellison very competitive but the uncharitable description is cut-throat (i.e. Ma

Winning a negative-sum game is a pyrrhic victory [1]. Charitably I'd call Larry Ellison very competitive but the uncharitable description is cut-throat (i.e. Machiavellian). Enterprise software sales is a naturally zero-sum game and Ellison is a salesman as much as he is a technical/business strategist. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pyrrhic_victory https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pyrrhic_victory