This is another area that's very strategic to us. The technology is very impressive. |
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 to hear. |
To the extent that they're shifting the focus on shareholder value, that's a good thing and people want to hear that, |
We already have 27,000 middleware customers. |
We are already halfway through the development process of Oracle Fusion Applications, and we remain on track for the 2008 target delivery. |
We are hosting entire infrastructures, mainly in financial and human resource (applications). We have some large customers running their back-office on our data centers in Austin, |
We can't take anything away if we expect people to upgrade. It's got to be a superset, |
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. |
We have engaged our customer base in the Fusion development process, and feel confident that 80 percent of our customers will be able to upgrade to Oracle Fusion applications and can plan to find functionality they had in earlier application versions, as well as new features coming from other applications. |
We have more on-demand customers. A big percentage over time will want us to choose those applications. We will have enough power products at this layer for it to makes sense. |
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 my bus." |
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. |
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 jump onto Oracle. |
We used to hold those secret meetings at her house. |
We went to Detroit. I wanted to see what was going on in some other parts of the world. You know, I was just traveling, like. I had a minister that lived here. He was in St. Louis and he said things was going so well and that it was such a wonderful place. |