We will come out with a product when we come up with a product that meets the needs of small businesses. We have plans that will be clarified when we are ready to clarify them.

After the Enterprise Services Architecture, your applications world will be made from apps by us based on these services, apps from ISVs…and apps you build yourself.

You don’t need to go out and buy every company out there. You need an ecosystem for co-innovation.

We started our planning by asking our customers what they needed. They needed continuous deployment options and a more strategic CRM…They wanted more than just a sliver of customer information. They wanted a full picture...

People will take more risk with edge process than core processes.

Larry is a very smart man. You can quote me on that.

We all talk about how great Linux is, … But if you look at the most innovative desktop today, Microsoft’s Vista is not copying Linux, it is copying Apple.

This will bridge the divide between on-demand and on-premise in that, over time, when a company grows, it can take its on-demand CRM on premise.

When you translate a dream into reality, it’s never a full implementation. It is easier to dream than to do.

There will be multiple waves of scenarios.

We are standing behind what we say.

They needed continuous deployment options and a more strategic CRM…. They wanted more than just a sliver of customer information. They wanted a full picture of the customer.

Once you have a mission, you can’t go back to having a job.

We have the potential ability to grow fourfold by looking at the number of employees in a corporation versus the number of users that are professional users of SAP.

They didn’t want to say up front, ‘You’re going to have to migrate from your software,’ because those words would have created a tremor. Now it’s been a year, and what they’re saying is, We’re...

One thing we’ve done is [enable] a nice transition toward it. You can pick your pace.

I get to shift multiple markets. I get to shift economies. It’s extremely liberating. I breathe differently.

It’s all about execution now.

It looks great on PowerPoint, but on planet Earth, it won’t fly. Salesforce.com is a CRM company. Marc is trying to make noise and buzz about something bigger, but that’s all it is.

We believe that you need a single unified platform on top of which you can make as many flexible solutions as you want.

I have a lot of respect for the auto manufacturers. They make a product people live inside – and can die inside – so they are held to very high standards.

This isn’t about assembling Lego blocks but rather about building a backbone that can scale and that can allow others to build on top of it.

We won’t do the kind of announcement Siebel has done.

Instead of forcing you into SAP, we let you use it anywhere you go, your way.

I started digging and found that Israel signed a peace treaty with the United Arab Emirates after the country had diversified their economy, instead of being solely oil-based. This diversification had brought about modernization. I...

The thing most people don’t realize,

Unlike other vendors, we have no lock-in.

Sometimes it was great for the customers, sometimes it wasn’t great for the customers.

My passions were an intersection between peace in the Middle East and climate change. I know how to understand a technology problem, break it into its components and solve it. I also knew I couldn’t...

With this new wave of partner alignment around enterprise services, we expect to bring thousands of enterprise services to life for our mutual customers through community collaboration, … Customers win when the ecosystem collaborates on...

I don’t know what happens 5 or 10 years down the road.

When we do acquisitions, we do it from the edges of the solutions. It’s hard to buy half a heart.

You can’t have thousands of cars without good computers on the electric grid.

You need to begin by analyzing your business first. You have to assume you’re on a treadmill and you have to integrate whatever comes your way.

No one has said that we will only stay in that area.

If a company puts in a solution in the market that makes other people fail, then we all fail as a community. This will be a model for enterprise services and how new ideas are...

Israel is my past. My two boys are my future.

It’s not about who is buying whom in the industry, it’s about process innovation.

We will not push customers [from] on-demand to on-premises. We don’t see this as a trick or ploy to bring them in.

It will be a systematic process. The (community partners) have to be successful for this whole model to work. If you don’t make money in this process, we’re not successful. We know that and we...

When I sold my first company at 30, I could have done whatever I wanted to do.

Instead of spending money on technical integration, you’ll spend money on business innovation.

Our goal was to have a same-day deployment model. You sign up in the morning, and you’re up and running by the afternoon.