They have created a culture of acquisition instead of innovation. It's a lot easier just to write big checks than it is to innovate. |
This is a fulfillment of our vision of 'The Business Web,' enabling companies of any size to manage, organize and share all of their business information on demand. |
This is what our customers are asking for to take them to the next level and free them from the bondage of mainframe and client-server software. |
We believe in the art of war. We are trying to get our competition to attack us with angry, virulent energy, so we can transform that into larger market share. |
We have competed against [Microsoft] in the CRM market since 2002 and they have failed to deliver a competitive product. They just cancelled version two of that legacy application and skipped ahead to three. In the meantime, we are on the 18th generation of our service. Customers are tired of waiting for Microsoft to innovate. |
We haven't seen any loss of customers from any service interruptions. A lot of the problems were around a new data centre, and we believe a lot of those issues are resolved. |
We still have so much people don't understand, |
We would be delighted to hear from any Siebel employee that would like to join our company that meets our rigorous standard for excellence and dedication to customer success, |
We're trying to provide a platform for applications. We think that's the next level. We are trying to become the Windows of the internet. |
What if there was an eBay of applications, where companies could buy and sell software, running on our platform? ... What if there was an iTunes Music Store of online applications? |
What if there was an eBay of enterprise applications? What if there was an iTunes music store of enterprise applications? We call that the AppExchange, |
When I was at Oracle, we watched Computer Associates buy all those mainframe software companies and milk them for their license revenue. I never thought that's what Oracle would be doing one day, and yet, here it is, |
When we heard the news this morning, it was clear to me we're moving up to the next level. Consolidation in the client-server computing industry is opening the door for software on demand. |