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发帖数: 25274 | | n*********e
发帖数: 25274 | 3 可能不止，此人是网球爱好者。。。
On August 9, 2010, Ellison denounced Hewlett-Packard's board for firing CEO
Mark Hurd, writing: "The H.P. board just made the worst personnel decision
since the idiots on the Apple board fired Steve Jobs many years ago."
Ellison and Hurd are close personal friends – Hurd often plays tennis at
Ellison's house. Then on September 6, Oracle hired Mark Hurd and made him Co
-President alongside Safra A. Catz. Ellison retained the CEO position.
【在 n*********e 的大作中提到】
: Oracle老板？
: 3.5应该。。。
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发帖数: 18176 | 4 那豆和他玩过，极品网球粉
CEO
Co
【在 n*********e 的大作中提到】
: 可能不止，此人是网球爱好者。。。
: On August 9, 2010, Ellison denounced Hewlett-Packard's board for firing CEO
: Mark Hurd, writing: "The H.P. board just made the worst personnel decision
: since the idiots on the Apple board fired Steve Jobs many years ago."
: Ellison and Hurd are close personal friends – Hurd often plays tennis at
: Ellison's house. Then on September 6, Oracle hired Mark Hurd and made him Co
: -President alongside Safra A. Catz. Ellison retained the CEO position.
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发帖数: 25274 | 5 Billionaire Larry Ellison will pay for tennis, loves to play it too
BILL DWYRE
The Oracle founder is the fifth-wealthiest man in the world, and he was
willing to spend about $100 million of that fortune to buy the BNP Paribas
Open, securing the future of the Indian Wells event. At 66, he's also a
serious player.
March 12, 2011|Bill Dwyre
We sat in a huge boardroom, with paneled walls, nice paintings and 20 big
leather chairs so comfortable they could put you to sleep in minutes.
It was a great place to discuss software trends with Larry Ellison, who was
not only deemed by Forbes last week to be the fifth wealthiest man in the
world, but who has probably seen more boardrooms than anybody this side of
Warren Buffett.
Of course, your typist wouldn't know a broadband from a Band-Aid. So it was
a good thing the topic was one vastly more important to the welfare of
Western civilization.
That would be tennis.
Last year, Ellison purchased the BNP Paribas Open, which has pretty well
established itself as the next best thing in tennis after the four Grand
Slams. If nothing else, its attendance, currently heading toward 350,000 for
its 13-day run in the Southern California desert, proves that. Only the
four majors sell more tickets.
Ellison, 66, is a tennis enthusiast, which probably understates it.
"I play five days a week," he says. "It's usually on clay. I love it."
This is not a pat-it-around guy, either. Asked if he is rated around a 4.0
or 4.5 player — ratings that indicate a strong, serious player, almost
college-team level — Ellison says, "Oh, I think a little better than that."
He admits it is hard to know exactly, because he isn't playing senior
tournaments, even though he smacks his lips at the thought.
"It is tempting," he says.
One might imagine that the board of directors of Oracle, his massive
software company in Redwood Shores, Ca., would like competitive tennis to
remain merely a temptation. He has already put together a team that won an
America's Cup in sailing, so the window for more fun time can't be huge.
"Life is not practice," he says. "It can't be that all I do is work."
He says he came back and forth to the tournament a few times last year, the
first year he owned the event. This time, he says, "I will stay the rest of
the week. I like it here."
In corporate tennis circles, his purchase of the Indian Wells event is seen
as something almost heroic, a move that not only injected cash and
stability into a tournament that had become a crown jewel of the sport, but
also sent an important message: If Larry Ellison thinks enough of the sport
to spend around $100 million on it, and even commit to improving a
tournament that didn't seem to need much, than tennis is still a big player
on the international scene.
"I love the sport," he says. "Nobody had to sell me on doing this."
There had been the possibility that, with financial difficulties, this
tournament might be sold and moved to another country, likely China. PM
Sports Management, the Charlie Pasarell-Raymond Moore venture that owned and
grew this tournament over 36 years, had gotten itself in decent shape the
last few years to be able to carry on easily. But Ellison's offer was too
good to refuse, as was the extra financial security.
"Nobody wanted to see this tournament go to another country," Ellison says.
He is an unabashed supporter of and optimist about the sport. He lights up
when he talks about classic Jimmy Connors-John McEnroe matches he has seen.
He indicates feeling honored to have met the great Aussie, Rod Laver, and
says Laver's era, with Ken Rosewall and Roy Emerson, was a time of tennis
pride, much like the current era of Roger Federer and Rafael Nadal.
"They are special," Ellison says of Federer and Nadal. "I remember that
Australian final, when Rafa beat Roger and Roger was so crushed by losing,
and Rafa went over and put his arm around him."
Ellison is at the age when men usually turn to golf, but he says he doesn't
play the game, even though he just bought a huge property in Rancho Mirage
that includes its own golf course, called Porcupine Creek.
"The joke is that I don't play golf because I have only one club," Ellison
says.
Fifteen minutes had passed and nary a broadband had been discussed. Nor any
skinny bands. This was tennis time, and bigger things were on the agenda,
such as Juan Martin Del Potro's massive forehand.
In this discussion, probably as in most business discussions, Ellison's
first serves were all in. | n*********e
发帖数: 25274 | 6 一发都进，每周打五次，还有和顶尖高手切磋机会，球拍之类不用赞助，5.0以上吧。
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发帖数: 25274 | 7 果然，4.5都嫌低。。。
【在 n*********e 的大作中提到】
: 一发都进，每周打五次，还有和顶尖高手切磋机会，球拍之类不用赞助，5.0以上吧。
: 。。
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发帖数: 18176 | 8 呵呵。我估计有童子功
【在 n*********e 的大作中提到】
: 果然，4.5都嫌低。。。
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