I'm also a longtime critic of certain big companies, Larry Ellison's Oracle among them. So imagine my dismay when I heard this: "The masterplan is “a place for brilliant people to come together”.

41-year-old David Ellison founded Skydance back in 2006 with some help from his father Larry Ellison, the Oracle cofounder who's worth $154 billion, according to the Bloomberg Billionaires Index.

DEATH DOESN’T make sense to Larry Ellison. Especially if it is premature like that of his doting adoptive mother, of kidney cancer when he was 20 years old. Even mere ageing is an irritant to ...