Ed Oates

{{short description|American businessman (born 1946)}} {{Infobox person | name = Ed Oates | image = Ed Oates.MP.jpg | alt = | caption = Oates in 2024 | birth_name = Edward Oates | birth_date = {{Birth year and age|1946}} | birth_place = | death_date =  | death_place = | occupation = | years_active = | known_for = Co-founder of Oracle Corporation | notable_works = | education = San Jose State University (BA) }}

'''Edward A. Oates''' (born 1946) is an American businessman. He co-founded Software Development Labs in August 1977 with Larry Ellison and Bob Miner. Software Development Labs later became Oracle Corporation.<ref>{{cite journal |date=May 2007 |title=Oracle Timeline |journal=Profit Magazine |volume=12 |issue=2 |pages=26–29 |publisher=Oracle |accessdate=2013-05-16 |url=http://www.oracle.com/us/corporate/profit/p27anniv-timeline-151918.pdf}}</ref>

==Education and early employment== Ed Oates graduated with a BA in mathematics from San Jose State University in 1968,<ref>{{cite news | url=http://www.sjsu.edu/about_sjsu/history/alumni/ | title=Distinguished Alumni | work=San Jose State University | accessdate=2010-08-14}}</ref> and worked at Singer, the US Army Personnel Information Systems Command (PERSINSCOM) (drafted), Ampex, and Memorex before co-founding Oracle.<ref name="Oracle FAQs">{{cite web|title=Edward Oates|url=http://www.orafaq.com/wiki/Edward_Oates|publisher=Oracle FAQ's|accessdate=16 July 2015}}</ref>

==Audible Difference== After retiring from Oracle in 1996 Oates purchased a high-end home theater store, Audible Difference. Oates' clients included his ex-partner Larry Ellison and Steve Jobs. In 1999 he sold Audible Difference.<ref name="Business Insider: WHERE ARE THEY NOW? Look What Happened To The Co-founders Of Oracle">{{cite web|last1=Bort|first1=Julie|title=WHERE ARE THEY NOW? Look What Happened To The Co-founders Of Oracle|url=http://www.businessinsider.com/whatever-happened-to-oracles-founders-in-this-iconic-photo-2012-8?op=1|publisher=Business Insider|accessdate=16 July 2015|date=18 September 2014}}</ref>

==Other affiliations== Oates volunteers time on the board of directors of the San Francisco Zoological Society and the Tower Foundation Board of San Jose State University.<ref>{{cite news| url=http://www.oracle.com/innovation/innovator-edward-oates.html | title=Conversations with Early Innovators |work=Oracle |accessdate=2010-08-14}}</ref>

==Personal life== In his spare time, Oates skis, builds H0 scale model railroads, and does video work for the Woodside Priory School Theater. He also plays guitar in the band Choc'd,<ref>{{cite news| url=https://www.usatoday.com/life/lifestyle/2008-01-01-rock-star-fantasies_N.htm?loc=interstitialskip | title=Rock this way! You, too, can be a music star at fantasy camp |work=USA Today |accessdate=2010-08-14 | date=2008-01-01}}</ref> and participated at [https://web.archive.org/web/20110715194810/http://www.rockcamp.com/la.htm Rock and Roll Fantasy Camp].<ref>{{cite journal |date=November 2009 |title=Embracing Your Inner Rock Star |journal=Profit Magazine |volume=14 |issue=4 |department=Forward Thinking |publisher=Oracle |accessdate=2013-05-16 |url=http://www.oracle.com/us/corporate/profit/features/092209-ft-143651.html#star}}</ref>

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