Richard Williams
Richard Williams
Animator who won a 1989 Academy Award for his work on the live action/animation hybrid film "Who Framed Roger Rabbit." "The Thief and the Cobbler" became his unfinished masterpiece.
ProfessionCartoonist
Date of Birth19 March 1933
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We see tremendous market acceptance when Microsoft's next big enterprise software product comes out. And when you look at the sheer numbers, it's arguably as big a market as the original Windows market,
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We're blessed with a little bit of speed. The skill people, if they find a crack, they can take it to the house.
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We played as well as we've played all year long defensively for one half, but it's my fault that after being evenly matched in the first half we didn't get it done,
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This news is more than anything a warning shot to the rest of software that everybody is going to be involved in a feeding frenzy. You are going to see a lot of smaller players go away.
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We see cannibalism as the only way to survive right now for the big players. There are a lot of software companies out there that can't grow.
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This year, our line is not as big. We don't have as many players at the skill positions and we're not as deep as last year or the year before.
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This strikes me as a trial balloon, ... Management may be getting tired of the harping on the dividend so if they give investors a quarter of the cash to shut people up, then the company can get back to business.
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Where the heck is the good news?. So far, there have not been concrete signs of a recovery.
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This program is a blessing. If I didn't have this program, I would probably be dead by now. When I got here, I was slowly dying. They provided me with a doctor, and everything turned around.
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We're from the ghetto. Venus is a ghetto Cinderella. People from the ghetto don't get nervous.
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With Microsoft taking the bottom out of the market's pricing structure, we are going to see that business slow down even more precipitously.
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There is a huge disconnect between the magnitude of what is likely to happen with earnings and what stocks have already discounted,
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The reality is that an Oracle deal would cost PeopleSoft customers. They have a vested interest in keeping PeopleSoft independent,
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There is a very real risk to Oracle. All of the enterprise software companies are making a major push down market.