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...success to a database-management program most Americans have never heard of--has taken full advantage of the fortune. For starters, Ellison could be a poster boy for Billionaire Chic. He drives expensive cars, loves beautiful women and jets off to exotic locations to sail his yacht. In Silicon Valley, where every day is casual Friday, the chairman of Oracle, based in San Mateo, Calif., dresses like the Prince of Wales. He shows up at industry functions in double-breasted suits, French cuffs and knuckle-size cuff links. He not only lives in a mansion designed like a traditional Japanese...
...lone-warrior reputation as much as his collection of Samurai helmets. Yet the scope of his ambition for network computing--as well as some mellowing that has come with age--appears to have left Ellison ready to cooperate. Already Oracle has begun to form an anti-Microsoft axis with Silicon Valley neighbors Sun Microsystems and Netscape, which Ellison says may have the perfect NC interface with its browser. Inside the firm, coo Lane now runs day-to-day operations, leaving Ellison free to think big, strategic thoughts. The calculus is simple, according to Bobby Cameron of Forrester Research: "Ray Lane...
...some spots a counterrevolution has begun. "People became so overloaded they didn't use it," says Silicon Valley consultant Anita Rosen about the E-mail system at computer-software-maker Oracle, where she worked for years. "Out of 300 E-mails, 80% were CCs. So maybe what you actually need to know are 40 E-mails a day, or an hour's work." At the White House, E-mail is so overloaded that many senior staff members refuse...
Will Wall Street buy? New York's big-money mandarins have been snubbing Silicon Valley of late, a chill exemplified by Wired Ventures' humiliating failure to float its own IPO last summer. "The new-issues market is not particularly strong right now, particularly for tech stocks," says Standard & Poor's analyst Robert Natale. "Amazon will be an indication of whether bellwether technology stocks can find an audience...
...billion gamble. The Army is betting that by trading silicon for lead, it will get a more lethal fighting force that can destroy much larger armies with few or no casualties--much as the allied forces did so effectively against Iraq in the Persian Gulf War six years ago. The risk is that the fancy new systems will fail under field conditions, leaving American troops more vulnerable than they were before...