Ellison's eleventh course

September 23, 2005 | Matt Marshall

Did you see this interview with Oracle chief executive Larry Ellison yesterday in Information Week?:

Q: Will there an acquisition in the security space?

ELLISON: Sure, it’s possible.

Well, we’re hearing Oracle is about to acquire Arcsight, the private company based in Cupertino that builds security software to be “air traffic control system” for IT specialists. It would be Ellison’s eleventh acquisition in a year. Kleiner Perkins is the venture capital backer, and In-Q-Tel, the CIA’s venture branch, also invested. A while back, Arcsight beat the drums about possibly going public in the near future. Now, neither Arcsight nor Oracle are confirming the acquisition (they both had “no comment”), so we’ll categorize this as a rumor for now. We knew about Siebel and G-Log ahead of time, but who knows this time?

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About the Author, Matt Marshall

Matt launched VentureBeat in September of 2006, with the realization that no one else was covering the entrepreneurial and tech innovation scene with the velocity or depth that he was. Prior to founding VentureBeat, he covered venture capital for the San Jose Mercury News from 2001 to 2006. In 2002, Matt was awarded "Journalist of the Year" by the Northern California Society of Professional Journalists. Prior to working at the Merc, he was a correspondent for the Wall Street Journal in Bonn, Germany from 1995 to 1998, and a writer for the Washington Post in 1994. Matt holds a PhD in Government and an MA in German and European Studies from Georgetown University. In addition to VentureBeat, Matt is also the Executive Producer of DEMO, the leading launchpad event for emerging technologies.