Oracle's Ellison: Decade's Pay King

Oracle Corporation founder and chief executive Larry Ellison topped the list of best-paid executives of the decade with 1.84 billion dollars, according to a report in the Wall Street Journal.The 65-year-old software pioneer, who founded Oracle in 1977, beat Internet tycoon Barry Diller into second place on just over one billion dollars.Ellison has a 23 percent stake in the company, the Journal reported in Monday's editions.

By Dana Blankenhorn: At the Wall Street Journal's annual tech conference this week, Oracle (ORCL) CEO Larry Ellison wowed the crowd by teasing the idea that Oracle is about to out-cloud the cloud with its cloudy, cloud-like better-than-a-cloud cloudy cloud offerings. Next week.

Former Hewlett-Packard chief executive Mark Hurd, who resigned last month following a sex scandal, is in talks to join US software giant Oracle, the Wall Street Journal said on its website.Citing people familiar with the matter, the Journal said Hurd, who left HP on August 6, is in negotiations to join the firm as a top executive but a position has not been confirmed.The CEO position at Oracle is unlikely to be changed, however, as the man who founded the company in 1970, Larry Ellison, also remains in the top post and is its largest shareholder, the Journal said.

Former Hewlett-Packard chief executive Mark Hurd, who resigned last month following a sex scandal, is in talks to join US software giant Oracle, the Wall Street Journal said on its website Sunday.Citing people familiar with the matter, the Journal said Hurd, who left HP on August 6, is in negotiations to join the firm as a top executive but a position has not been confirmed.The CEO position at Oracle is unlikely to be changed, however, as the man who founded the company in 1970, Larry Ellison, also remains in the top post and is its largest shareholder, the Journal said.

Larry Ellison threw his barbs at IBM today when announcing Oracle's first "mainframe" class computer server, called the M5.

We just got an email from a SAP president, Sanjay Poonen, about a funny song he wrote. In it, he praises of SAP's breakaway-hit, a database product called HANA and disses SAP's old rival, Oracle. Half-way though (at 3:40), the song throws these jabs at Oracle CEO Larry Ellison:

How do you top buying 97 percent of a Hawaiian island? Buy a Hawaiian airline to help people get there.