Charles Phillips
Charles Phillips
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We can't take anything away if we expect people to upgrade. It's got to be a superset,
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We're betting he's the next CEO of Oracle so you better get to know him if you don't already,
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We're an open company and support many databases.
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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.
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There are probably way too many integration specialists from the software perspective -- but as in most markets, about three companies are getting 70 percent of the market. So the market will start to consolidate if not through acquisition then through de facto market share gains.
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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,
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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.
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Because you remember Meredith was walking along the highway there and somebody shot him.
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Grand, gloomy, and peculiar, he sat upon the throne a sceptred hermit, wrapped in the solitude of his own originality.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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With today's announcement, we are giving customers the best of both worlds: more value from existing applications, which we plan to enhance indefinitely, and an option to upgrade free-of-charge to future technologies, if customers have a business case to do so.
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When we go into an industry, we go all the way.