We’ll continue to review selected opportunities in open source.

It’s a rare occasion when someone important in the (software) industry decides not to support Linux,

We can’t take anything away if we expect people to upgrade. It’s got to be a superset,

This was the first time many of our new customers heard our strategy, … Clearly some of them were waiting until they heard more from company and I think they heard exactly what they wanted...

They just didn’t have the sense of the strength of their vote. Just thought it wasn’t necessary.

In this case, it might be more fun to crush them

We said, “Because if you don’t give us two drivers by Monday morning, we’re going to shut your bus company down.” Oh, he was a boastful kind. He said, “No Negroes want to stop riding...

This is another area that’s very strategic to us. The technology is very impressive.

For the last 10 (percent) to 15 percent of customers who may not want to upgrade, this (lifetime support) is important to them,

We supply technology and applications to more than 90% of communications companies worldwide today, and billing is a logical and complementary addition for those customers.

From what we’ve seen, what (Siebel) built was very impressive and that will give us more momentum,

We went to Detroit. I wanted to see what was going on in some other parts of the world. You know, I was just traveling, like. I had a minister that lived here. He was...

We’ve been working with IBM the last couple of weeks on this and with applications in the future. Oracle views the IBM-Oracle project as one of the most important customer-focused projects under way at our...

We’re starting with something I believe was a generation ahead of what was out there; all it needed was scale. And Oracle can bring scale.

Some teachers had been trained to work out at Southern because I carried two out there. I carried a lady down here from Palmer’s Crossing, used to play piano, and Billy Carter.

The good thing about standards is, almost anybody we buy has a similar architecture to what we’re marching toward.

We went up there and Lynd was out at the time, one day, we went up there. And he had some young ladies in there, and the question was raised to them, were they registrars....

The deal will not change the needle much in either direction,

We are hosting entire infrastructures, mainly in financial and human resource (applications). We have some large customers running their back-office on our data centers in Austin,

We used to hold those secret meetings at her house.

You might see us with some open source products,

The fast rate of development, high literacy rate and availability of information technology skills in each of these cities represent an untapped reservoir of future economic wealth.

Our applications provide customers with the tools they need to manage the information that runs their businesses. IBM has become the leader in the Unix marketplace and our partnership with the company will allow Oracle...

Maybe, we should have talked to you before we bought it.

Siebel’s expertise with industry-specific customer-facing applications combined with rich analytics will not only serve as the centerpiece of our CRM strategy for Oracle Fusion Applications, but can also be used to extend our current customers...

[The business-intelligence apps, called Siebel Analytics, represent an area Oracle covets–namely, providing closer to real-time visibility into customer-facing business processes.] This is another area that’s very strategic to us, … The technology is very impressive.

We’ll take the best of both products,

We’re betting he’s the next CEO of Oracle so you better get to know him if you don’t already,

The Voters League was, because you’d get ballots printed and they would have the people’s names on the ballot, who was favorable to our movement.

Even if it may not be the most elegant or cool feature, if people are using it, and they think it’s important, then it needs to be there for people to upgrade. There will be...

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.