“All Others Must Lose”: Larry Ellison Once Spent Billions Taking on Bill Gates’s Microsoft, Even Paying Investigators to Dig in Trash

In one of the fiercest and most enduring rivalries in tech history, Oracle co-founder Larry Ellison and Microsoft’s Bill Gates battled for dominance over databases and enterprise software, with Ellison’s ruthless ambition and espionage scandals cementing his cutthroat approach to competition.