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Wayne Williams

“It’s cheaper for you and more profitable for us”: In 1998, Larry Ellison predicted the world we live in today, where you pay over and over for software you don’t own

Larry Ellison.

In the late 1990s, Oracle co-founder Larry Ellison came up with an outlandish sounding idea that would eventually become something we view as perfectly ordinary today: paying monthly for software that lives somewhere else.

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