This team was at a higher level than other freshman teams I’ve coached. They still have some work to do before they can compete at the next level.

Our view is that it’s now a substantial competitor to everyone else. It’s no longer the sort of toy database that you use for relatively small businesses.

Oracle can’t afford to [anger] IBM too much, and vice versa.

I mostly see people going to news sites or Pointcast or the NCAA Final Four site, but for the most part, it’s before business hours, after business hours or during lunch time. I’ve been monitoring...

In my opinion, they won’t do something with it right away,

We weren’t quite ready to compete at the next level. We dominated the freshman teams in the league.

It’s a no-lose situation for Oracle. It probably cost them next to nothing and it’s a way of putting the squeeze on MySQL.

I’ll tell you there have been so many through. Even teams that aren’t on his radar anymore are still calling. Ohio State, Nebraska, Florida, Maryland, Michigan are the ones I have had the most interaction...

It’s not entirely in their hands.

In the past, software vendors have shied away from anything that looks like a business service because it dilutes their operating margin. We will be very interested to monitor Sage’s progress.

Siebel is undeniably the highest functionality. For my money it would be silly not to take the functionality and express it in what is going to be Fusion.

We were a different team at the start of the season than we were at the end. At the beginning of the season we were a transition team that played good full-court defense. By the...

We had the depth to have those guys leave. It just made us adjust what we did.