Larry Ellison once called cloud a dumb idea. Now it’s making him even richer

Virginia Backaitis
Digitizing Polaris
Published in
3 min readMar 14, 2024

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In 2011 Oracle chairman Larry Ellison called cloud computing stupid idea, nonsense, a buzzword, and a re-labelling of everything that we already do.

“I can’t think of anything that isn’t cloud computing, he said. “The computer industry is the only industry that is more fashion-driven than women’s fashion. Maybe I’m an idiot, but I…

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