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Larry Ellison,Oracle Corps outspoken chief executive officer,said Google Inc CEO Larry Page acted absolutely evil and accused the Internet company of using Oracles products without permission.
We just think they took our stuff,and that was wrong, Ellison said in an interview with Charlie Rose on CBS This Morning in the US that was aired on Tuesday.
When asked if he thought Page was evil,
Ellison replied: I think what they did was absolutely evil.
Google,whose motto is dont be evil, declined to comment.
Ellison accused Google of using Oracles Java programming language to develop the Android mobile operating system. And at the very end,you press a button and (say),Convert this to Android format, he said. Oracle has sued Google over the issue.
Page joins a long list of technology executives who have been lambasted by Ellison,including former Microsoft Corp CEO Bill Gates,Salesforce.com Inc chief Mark Benioff,SAP co-founder Hasso Plattner,and Hewlett-Packards entire board and former CEO Leo Apotheker.
During the interview,which CBS said took place last week,Ellison addressed a wide range of subjects,including the future of Apple Inc without the late Steve Jobs and the controversy over the US National Security Agencys electronic surveillance programmes.
Ellison called the National Security Agencys collection of data absolutely essential for the government to ferret out potential terrorists and said it would be alarming only if the data is used to do political targeting.
The US government is one of Oracles biggest customers.
On Apple,Ellison said that without his best friend Jobs,the company would not be nearly so successful.
I like Tim Cook, he said about Apples CEO. I think there are a lot of talented people there,but Steve is irreplaceable.
