Oracle founder Larry Ellison announced Tuesday that he plans to move the software giant’s headquarters to Nashville, Tennessee, which he said is at the center of the healthcare industry.
Ellison sat down with former Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist for an on-stage conversation in Nashville that was shared Tuesday by Oracle Health on the social media platform LinkedIn.
The founder and executive chairman told Frist that his company would be moving its “huge campus” to Nashville, and that this will “eventually become our international headquarters.”
“I shouldn’t have said that,” Ellison said quickly, but there was no turning back as he revealed information about the future of his company.
Ellison said Oracle’s move to Nashville will position his company as one of the major players in healthcare, an industry in which Oracle is looking to expand its position.
In 2022, Oracle acquired Cerner for $28 billion.
The Kansas City, Missouri-based company provides software for managing electronic health records.
While explaining the company’s relocation plans, Ellison said Nashville is “a great place to live.”
“It’s a great place to raise a family. It has a unique and vibrant culture. And when we surveyed our employees, large numbers of employees, Nashville met all the requirements,” Ellison said.
He also said Nashville is “the center of the industry we are most concerned about, which is health care.”
Norman Foster, who designed Apple Park in Cupertino, California, is designing the new Oracle campus in Nashville, which will be “right on the river.”
The CEO said the new campus will not look like a corporate campus at all, but will instead be a park with buildings on it.
Ellison said the news site will include office buildings, a community clinic, restaurants, hotels and a concert venue – a floating stage on the lake where community concerts will be held.
“We want to be part of the community,” he says. “Our people love it here. And we think this is the center of our future.”
Oracle did not immediately respond to questions from Fox News Digital about the announcement.
Oracle is currently headquartered in Austin, Texas. It moved there in 2020, after leaving Redwood Shores, California.
