Zoli points to a discussion about Larry Ellison's investment in SaaS vendor NetSuite which is about to go IPO. My view - there are enough checks and balances in Oracle's corporate governance, not to mention in the scrutiny the Feds and States put on his financial transactions to make it a non-issue.
I have always believed if Larry had invested in every one of Oracle's alums, he would be a far richer man than Bill Gates.
What is more interesting is to see NetSuite and salesforce.com (another of his investments) blaze a trail where Oracle On-Demand (or indeed Siebel, SAP and others) has not been able to do much. Maybe Larry should similarly invest in Open Source, Third Party Maintenance, BPO, Search, Web services start-ups. They represent the growth and the innovation in the market, not the company he founded.
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