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. |
Because you remember Meredith was walking along the highway there and somebody shot him. |
Customers haven't been shy about giving us their opinion. |
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 some things that we thought were cool, but no one ever used, so that doesn't make it. This is a chance to do it the right way. |
For the last 10 (percent) to 15 percent of customers who may not want to upgrade, this (lifetime support) is important to them, |
From what we've seen, what (Siebel) built was very impressive and that will give us more momentum, |
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. |
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 he wanted and he was raising sand. Said his wife told him that I looked like I wanted to rape their daughter, somewhere in a room. |
In my view, the forecast looks conservative. |
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. |
In this case, it might be more fun to crush them |
It is a team environment. People who do well at Oracle are people who understand that and don't mind exchanging ideas. |
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 to customers, so we have some of that input already. |
It's a rare occasion when someone important in the (software) industry decides not to support Linux, |
It's going to take collectively lots of these units over time, to create some measurable value for shareholders. They have a lot of shares outstanding and to make a difference they'd have to have some pretty big actions to float to investors. |