We went up there and Lynd was out at the time, one day, we went up there. And he had some young ladies in there, and the question was raised to them, were they registrars. They said, "We are employees." They wouldn't accept the fact that they were able to register anybody in the absence of Lynd. He was the only person that could register us. Any other citizens could go in and it would be all right but, we couldn't. |
We'd love to get to a mode where we're looking at the number of employees served, the number of checks processed--you name it, some business metric--and take it out of the technology realm and tie our success to their success in terms of business. |
We'll continue to review selected opportunities in open source. |
We'll take the best of both products, |
We're an open company and support many databases. |
We're betting he's the next CEO of Oracle so you better get to know him if you don't already, |
We're committed to additional features. The concept is [to deliver] the next release, but it's unlimited. It goes on in parallel [to Fusion]. It's different train tracks. You can ride on the one you want and jump on the next track when you're ready. It's all going together in parallel. All we're doing is adding another track with Fusion. You can jump on when you want to. |
We're increasingly interested in open source as a way of reaching customers we can't reach today. |
We're starting with something I believe was a generation ahead of what was out there; all it needed was scale. And Oracle can bring scale. |
We're willing to compete on the merits. |
We've already talked about premium support for the next five years [and till 2013]. There will be versions of support that last forever. We want people to feel protected, |
We've already talked about premium support for the next five years [and till 2013]. There will be versions of support that last forever. We want people to feel protected. |
We've announced lifetime support. It's up to us to put enough value in there that you plan to [upgrade]. |
We've been in the on-demand hosting business five years, |
We've been working with IBM the last couple of weeks on this and with applications in the future. Oracle views the IBM-Oracle project as one of the most important customer-focused projects under way at our company. |