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Mon 06 Jun 2007Elison's chief inspirationSAN JOSE:Ask a billionaire chief executive to list the industry leaders he most admires and thinks are the best innovators, and the roster is bound to be interesting and revealing.The Irish Timesasked Oracle founder and chief executive Larry Ellison to come up with a few names recently and most had a relevance - they influenced recent decisions the Oracle head had made about the way he views and runs his $14.8 billion (€11 billion) company.