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,