Jeff Henley
Jeff Henley
Jeffrey O. "Jeff" Henley is an American businessman and the vice chairman of Oracle Corporation, having previously served as chairman...
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business concern database definitely half improvement shown
There was a concern that our database business was not doing well, but it's definitely shown a significant improvement from the first half of the year,
appear enterprise far hardware remains software spending technology
As far as we can tell, technology spending for enterprise hardware and software remains very soft and does not appear to be improving.
decides delayed environment force high management press projects sales sell smarter
In addition, our sales force is getting smarter about how to sell in this environment. Finally, high (return on investment) projects around e-business can only get delayed so long before management decides they need to press ahead.
although bit certainly expect next quarter sharp throughout year
Each quarter throughout this next year I think we should do a bit better, although we certainly don't expect any sharp improvements.
both enormous good indicator pipeline proven sales
We have an enormous sales pipeline for both applications and technology, ... Typically that's proven to be a good indicator of how we'll do.
believe business economy fortunate industry optimistic pc quarter seen slowing third though
We're very optimistic about the third quarter and beyond, ... We have seen no slowing of our business, even though we believe that the U.S. economy and the PC industry are slowing. Our business is not at all correlated with the PC industry. We are fortunate to be in the right place at the right time.
again bullish business continues extremely good margins quarter rest sales second
Business continues to be extremely robust, which makes us bullish on the second quarter and the rest of the year, ... We think margins will continue to expand, and sales pipelines look good again this quarter.
business looks negative rest terrific year
We don't see anything for the rest of this year that looks negative at all. We think that business is going to be terrific this year.
believe beyond continue quarter visibility
Visibility beyond the upcoming quarter is minimal, but we continue to believe that we will see year-over-year improvements.
did not do as well as we think it should have.
again annual billion dollars improved improvement last margin operating percent points quarter savings
A billion dollars in annual savings translates to a 10-point improvement in our margins. We did better than that again this quarter. In the first quarter our operating margin improved over last year's by 11.7 points -- from 17.4 percent to 29.1 percent.