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"I have to admit I sometimes get a little dizzy. We bet the ranch (on Internet computing) and it came up

"I have to admit I sometimes get a little dizzy. We bet the ranch (on Internet computing) and it came up. Wow!" - Oracle CEO Larry Ellison on the software company's rapid rise over the last year.

News monitor column compiled by Conor Pope.

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