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Watch Larry Ellison Flip Out At His Own Idea

Larry Ellison threw a fantastic tantrum against the mindless cult of “Cloud Computing,” jargon for Web applications and a fascination of “nitwit” Silicon Valley investors, as Ellison calls them. But the Oracle CEO was himself once a “nitwit.” Just look: Attached is a video in which we’ve spliced Ellison’s rant, delivered last week at the Churchill Club and recorded by TechPulse 360 , with excerpts from an interview Ellison gave to Charlie Rose in 1996 . At the time, Ellison was campaigning for the world to adopt “Network Computers,” jargon for Web applications running on stripped down computer terminals.

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Watch Larry Ellison Flip Out At His Own Idea