{"id":3958,"date":"2012-10-04T14:54:00","date_gmt":"2012-10-04T14:54:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cloudcomputing.sys-con.com\/node\/2389608"},"modified":"2012-10-04T14:54:00","modified_gmt":"2012-10-04T14:54:00","slug":"cloud-computing-ellison-swears-off-big-acquisitions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/cloud-computing-ellison-swears-off-big-acquisitions\/","title":{"rendered":"Cloud Computing: Ellison Swears Off Big Acquisitions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Larry Ellison, who spent $50 billion more or less on acquisitions in the last 10 years, is swearing off making any big acquisitions to add to Oracle for a couple of years to focus instead on growing the company organically in an attempt to dominate the cloud, a technology he used to call \u201ccomplete gibberish\u201d and a \u201cfad.\u201d<br \/>\nOf course Larry can resist anything but temptation and didn\u2019t rule out a big deal \u201cdown the road,\u201d when he spoke to CNBC\u2019s Maria Bartiromo in his first interview in years. But he\u2019s especially not going to buy NetApp, the storage concern rumored to be a target. It would cost a lot of money and doesn\u2019t fit Oracle\u2019s current strategy.<br \/>\n\u201cWe have all the assets in-house to grow very rapidly on an organic basis,\u201d he said. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/cloudcomputing.sys-con.com\/node\/2389608\" >read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Larry Ellison, who spent $50 billion more or less on acquisitions in the last 10 years, is swearing off making any big acquisitions to add to Oracle for a couple of years to focus instead on growing the company organically in an attempt to dominate the&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3958","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3958","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3958"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3958\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3958"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3958"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3958"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}