Oracle's database and e-Business applications have become the software standard for the Internet, ... All 10 of the world's biggest Web sites use Oracle, as do 93 percent of the public dot.com companies. The faster the Internet grows, the faster we grow. |
Our applications business is strong and getting stronger, ... Oracle's new e-Business Suite puts every aspect of a business -- marketing, sales, service, procurement, supply chain, manufacturing, accounting, human resources -- everything, on the Internet. All the applications in our suite are designed and engineered to work together, so customers buying the entire suite don't need to do any systems integration. |
Our current quarter looks a lot stronger than our previous quarter, ... We're seeing some of the big deals coming back. |
Our goal is very simply to become the desktop for e-businesses. |
Our target has been low double-digit growth for databases, so we were not that far off. |
People like you are supposed to expose this stuff, ... People like us are just trying to help. I never knew that we were doing any of this stuff, but if Microsoft is creating front organizations, I feel very good about bringing that information to the public. |
PeopleSoft executives are traveling around telling customers that we will 'kill' PeopleSoft's products and force them to move to Oracle's applications, ... These are lies and scare tactics. |
PeopleSoft is doing everything it can to prevent its shareholders from voting, ... If PeopleSoft's Board is so convinced that the J.D. Edwards acquisition is a great deal, why won't it let their shareholders vote on it? |
Rather than try to fight the open source trend, we think it's important to find ways to make it work to our advantage. |
Right now, 70 percent of the people don't have computers. And where they're needed most, people don't have them. We think this will enable anyone to own a computer. We're aiming at everybody who uses a computer as an information access device. The original idea was to build one cheaply enough to put one on every desk, |
Siebel is the categorical leader [in CRM] and understands it better than anyone else on the planet, ... This action makes building Fusion products easier not harder. |
Siebel's 4,000 applications customers and 3,400,000 CRM users strengthen our number one position in applications in North America and move us closer to the number one position in applications globally. |
The Association for Competitive Technology didn't exist until the Microsoft antitrust trial began, ... It purports to be an independent group that is supporting America, but it was bought and paid for by two Americans -- Bill Gates and Steve Ballmer [Microsoft's CEO]. |
The code is pretty much overrated. It's more important to know such things as structure, features and functionality. |
The growth of corporate intranets and the World Wide Web is driving demand for both the Oracle8i database and our applications, |