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...

We’re an open company and support many databases.

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.