Charles Phillips
Charles Phillips
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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.
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Siebel's expertise with industry-specific customer-facing applications combined with rich analytics will not only serve as the centerpiece of our CRM strategy for Oracle Fusion Applications, but can also be used to extend our current customers investments today.
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It is a team environment. People who do well at Oracle are people who understand that and don't mind exchanging ideas.
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I said good morning, and came on out. That afternoon when we came back, Gus here on Klondike flagged my uncle down and told him to come back there. He went back to see what he wanted and he was raising sand. Said his wife told him that I looked like I wanted to rape their daughter, somewhere in a room.
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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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Right, right, he saw his power slipping away. And he said, "Now I'd better join the band here." They gave us their support. It was going along quite well.
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You know, I had spoke to Pugh earlier about joining the organization. Pugh told me he wasn't going to have anything to do with that mess.
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Oracle is halfway to Fusion. One year later, half the job is done and it's the toughest half.
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Some of the managers missed some of the initial run up in tech stocks, ... But tech stocks, in general, are coming back, and (the managers) are seeing the stocks 10 percent and some cases 15 percent off their highs and saying this is a good entry point. Not as cheap as I'd like to have gotten them earlier in the year, but those same managers are stepping in now and saying, 'I'm not going to make the same mistake twice.'
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The advantage that Oracle has in the wireless Web area is its deep reach into corporate computing. They will offer business users a combination of consumer news and the ability to interact with a corporate application wirelessly.
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To the extent that they're shifting the focus on shareholder value, that's a good thing and people want to hear that,
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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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The deal will not change the needle much in either direction,
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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.