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Yes, it's true, Oracle CEO Larry Ellison has bought 98% of the Hawaiian Island of Lanai for $500m. The island was previously owned by David Murdock who bought Dole in 1985. The island has 3,200 residents, two luxury resorts, two golf courses and is 88,000 acres (141 square miles) in size.
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Ellison Buys Island of Lanai
Declares Bill & Melinda Gates Marriage to be in Violation of Oracle Terms of Service
Says "What Island? I only
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A controversial issue in the UK this week is the BBC’s decision to invite the British National Party - the far-right, whites-only political party - to appear on Question Time, the BBC’s flagship political debate programme.
Critics fear that the move will legitimise the BNP’s far-right views, while the BBC has defended the invitation on the grounds that its role as a politically neutral public service broadcaster would be undermined if it excluded the BNP - which won its first European Parliament seats this year with an estimated million votes.
To me it is clear that no matter how abhorrent the BNP’s policies on certain issues may be the BBC has a duty to invite it to participate as it is a legitimately
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# Larry Ellison reportedly said Oracle has no intention of spinning off MySQL.
# Yahoo is trying to sell Zimbra, according to All Things D.
# Linus Torvalds said Linux is “bloated and huge”.
# GroundWork Open Source released GroundWork Monitor 6.0.
# Zend launched Simple API for Cloud Application Services with IBM, Microsoft, Nirvanix,
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hannahadams and I were laying awake tonight being kept awake by the naughty puppy. We talked a bit about database vendors, and she asked me "so, who is behind Oracle?" I told her that some people call him Darth Ellison. She grunted and said that it sounds to her as if he was not played with enough as a young boy, and that his insatiable appetite for consuming information-related companies indicates that he just needs some hugs.| Showing entries 1 to 5 |
