Word: ellison
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...yesterday, 402 people had registered with the portal or with its predecessor, CriticalMass, according to Lowell House Senior Tutor Jay L. Ellison, though it is not known how many of those people had provided their actual FAS password...
...designed houseSYSTEM along with the Harvard Student Entrepreneurship Club (SEC), maintained that no one’s password—whether their genuine FAS password or not—had ever been in jeopardy. It was partially for this reason, he said, that he initially balked when Ellison informed him that the College administration wanted him to turn over the usernames of every houseSYSTEM registrant...
...administration made other requests as well, according to Greenspan and Ellison. In addition to turning over a list of user names, he was asked to delete any FAS passwords—even if encrypted—that were in the houseSYSTEM database and to make sure that no project of his ever asked for FAS passwords again...
...both Ellison and Dean of Harvard College Benedict H. Gross ’71 said that they had neither requested nor received any information other than the list of user names registered to use the portal...
...spat between Ellison and Conway would be little more than an amusing sideshow if not for two things. First, it shows the reach of Ellison's influence. He has been CEO of Oracle since 1977--several lifetimes in the tech industry--and a coterie of former Oracle executives, dubbed the Little Larrys, has fanned out to rule much of the business-software world. Conway, Siebel and Marc Benioff, CEO of Salesforce. com, a company that lets clients hire out its enterprise applications, are members of the Oracle alumni e-mail list. There is no love lost for Ellison among them...