Global CIO: Larry Ellison's 10-Point Plan For World Domination

Global CIO: Larry Ellison's 10-Point Plan For World Domination

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While a handful of IT companies are hoping to play the dominant role in shaping the business-technology landscape in the coming decade, Oracle and CEO Larry Ellison stand alone in their willingness to state that strategy publicly in blunt, uncompromising, and stop-me-if-you-can terms.

IBM, Hewlett-Packard, and SAP are the other major contenders -- and we'll dig into each of their broad approaches and corporate visions in forthcoming columns -- but none has been as forthcoming as Ellison in spelling out what they'll do, when they'll do it, how they'll do it, and to whom they'll be doing it.

Of course, in a business that changes as rapidly and sometimes radically as the enterprise IT market -- until a year or so ago, did anybody really think Oracle would ever become a hardware player? -- these battle plans need to be recalibrated and refined in the face of major new developments, and we're sure to see more than a few of such overhauls among the major players here in 2011.

But, as the year kicks off, here's our first in-depth look at Oracle's strategic vision for the coming year, and, inspired by the stated ambitions of Oracle's founder and CEO, we're calling this installment "Larry Ellison's 10-Point Plan For World Domination." The core arguments from Oracle executives come from my transcription of the company's December 16, 2010 earnings report and conference call with analysts.

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