We’re increasingly interested in open source as a way of reaching customers we can’t reach today.

I said good morning, and came on out. That afternoon when we came back, Gus here on Klondike flagged my uncle down and told him to come back there. He went back to see what...

The advantage that Oracle has in the wireless Web area is its deep reach into corporate computing, … They will offer business users a combination of consumer news and the ability to interact with a...

In this case I think it would be much more fun to crush them, … We see a lot of ways to compete with them. We will try that for a while.

Some of the managers missed some of the initial run up in tech stocks, … But tech stocks, in general, are coming back, and (the managers) are seeing the stocks 10 percent and some cases...

I don’t know how a fellow looks, when he meets somebody that he hasn’t seen, hasn’t heard of, don’t know where they are, know nothing about the house, whatever.

We have more on-demand customers. A big percentage over time will want us to choose those applications. We will have enough power products at this layer for it to makes sense.

You know, I had spoke to Pugh earlier about joining the organization. Pugh told me he wasn’t going to have anything to do with that mess.

The integrated suite, what we’re known for, lowers the cost of ownership. That shouldn’t be translated as locking anyone in. It will be open.

There wasn’t any criminal act involved that the officer could see that would require any criminal investigation, … DHS may follow up.

Right, right, he saw his power slipping away. And he said, “Now I’d better join the band here.” They gave us their support. It was going along quite well.

There are probably way too many integration specialists from the software perspective — but as in most markets, about three companies are getting 70 percent of the market. So the market will start to consolidate...

We have engaged our customer base in the Fusion development process, and feel confident that 80 percent of our customers will be able to upgrade to Oracle Fusion applications and can plan to find functionality...

Oracle is halfway to Fusion. A year later, we’re 50 percent done and that’s the tough half. [We’re] pretty proud of that.

The old man is dead now.

It shouldn’t take a year to make a decision. Maybe in six to nine months, we’ll make a decision on whether to support multiple databases, … We’re already talking to customers and have been talking...

A lot of those standards are in middleware. The next generation of applications will be a lot more middleware dependent, so you have to start there.

We’re committed to additional features. The concept is [to deliver] the next release, but it’s unlimited. It goes on in parallel [to Fusion]. It’s different train tracks. You can ride on the one you want...

To the extent that they’re shifting the focus on shareholder value, that’s a good thing and people want to hear that,

THE FIGHTING IN THE PEACH ORCHARD AT GETTYSBURGPROLOGUE”The same young men who crowded each other as they faced the recruiters’ tables now crowded each other as they died.

That’s where their office was, at the time, and talked with the manager about hiring two black drivers. He said he didn’t have any openings.

We’ve announced lifetime support. It’s up to us to put enough value in there that you plan to [upgrade].

When we go into an industry, we go all the way.

People were walking and they had formed the car pools. People were driving folks to work. Others were walking to work, where it wasn’t too far.

We already have 27,000 middleware customers.

the better our product will be.

It’s going to take collectively lots of these units over time, to create some measurable value for shareholders. They have a lot of shares outstanding and to make a difference they’d have to have some...

JAKE BAKER JOINING THE UNION ARMY IN NEW ORLEANS”I’d prefer to be back in Texas, taking aim at the Rebs…, but I just can’t do that,” said Jake. …”So, I’ll just do what I can...

They didn’t know anything about the candidates and things of that sort. So they needed guidance. And that league was very instrumental in directing the people in the direction to go.

When it comes to IT spending, banking is the granddaddy of all industries, … They spend a lot more on technology compared with other industries.

You couldn’t keep a record. You couldn’t keep any minutes, you know. You’d have a meeting at, say, my house today. And the next week or two, you’d have it at his house. And the...

This is a customer driven event. Our joint customers have consistently recommended this transaction to both companies for over a year.

We’d love to get to a mode where we’re looking at the number of employees served, the number of checks processed–you name it, some business metric–and take it out of the technology realm and tie...

We have defined Oracle Fusion architecture, certified all Oracle applications on our world-class Oracle Fusion middleware, which includes a set of mature tools that are being used to develop the Oracle Fusion applications.

It is a team environment. People who do well at Oracle are people who understand that and don’t mind exchanging ideas.

[Even more critical to Oracle’s future, however, was Phillips’s announcement of Oracle Fusion Architecture (OFA), the company’s massive SOA, combining the flexibility of model-driven process design and service- and event-enabled applications with ease of integration...

Because you remember Meredith was walking along the highway there and somebody shot him.

We’ve already talked about premium support for the next five years [and till 2013]. There will be versions of support that last forever. We want people to feel protected,

Customers haven’t been shy about giving us their opinion.

The Oracle Fusion Architecture is a unifying model of emerging trends in grid computing architecture, service oriented architecture, and enterprise information architecture. While each trend is a study unto itself, the fact that these techniques...

This is a comprehensive best-of-breed Business Intelligence offering that spans multiple categories.

We’re willing to compete on the merits.

Our customers haven’t been shy about their opinions.

We are already halfway through the development process of Oracle Fusion Applications, and we remain on track for the 2008 target delivery.

Oracle is halfway to Fusion. One year later, half the job is done and it’s the toughest half.

You have to keep in mind that in the case of PeopleSoft and Siebel, a number of people there used to work for or are partners of Oracle. So it’s usually just a reunion. It’s...

We’ve been in the on-demand hosting business five years,

We think open source has (played) an important part in introducing new customers, who we wouldn’t have known about, to the idea of databases, … When they want to do something more serious…they very quickly...

In my view, the forecast looks conservative.

With today’s announcement, we are giving customers the best of both worlds: more value from existing applications, which we plan to enhance indefinitely, and an option to upgrade free-of-charge to future technologies, if customers have...