Charles Phillips
Charles Phillips
actions create difference float lots measurable shares value
It's going to take collectively lots of these units over time, to create some measurable value for shareholders. They have a lot of shares outstanding and to make a difference they'd have to have some pretty big actions to float to investors.
customers decision input maybe multiple nine six support talking whether year
It shouldn't take a year to make a decision. Maybe in six to nine months, we'll make a decision on whether to support multiple databases, ... We're already talking to customers and have been talking to customers, so we have some of that input already.
cities economic fast future high information literacy rate represent reservoir skills technology
The fast rate of development, high literacy rate and availability of information technology skills in each of these cities represent an untapped reservoir of future economic wealth.
case dramatic mind number partners people portrayed work
You have to keep in mind that in the case of PeopleSoft and Siebel, a number of people there used to work for or are partners of Oracle. So it's usually just a reunion. It's not as dramatic as it's portrayed from the outside.
base coming confident customer customers earlier engaged features fusion oracle percent plan upgrade
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.
chance cool elegant needs people using
Even if it may not be the most elegant or cool feature, if people are using it, and they think it's important, then it needs to be there for people to upgrade. There will be some things that we thought were cool, but no one ever used, so that doesn't make it. This is a chance to do it the right way.
generation next standards start
A lot of those standards are in middleware. The next generation of applications will be a lot more middleware dependent, so you have to start there.
act criminal follow involved officer require
There wasn't any criminal act involved that the officer could see that would require any criminal investigation, ... DHS may follow up.
might open source
You might see us with some open source products,
area strategic technology
This is another area that's very strategic to us. The technology is very impressive.
decides industry occasion rare support
It's a rare occasion when someone important in the (software) industry decides not to support Linux,
both companies customer customers driven joint
This is a customer driven event. Our joint customers have consistently recommended this transaction to both companies for over a year.
advantage allow company customers few ibm information last leader manage momentum oracle provide runs tools unix
Our applications provide customers with the tools they need to manage the information that runs their businesses. IBM has become the leader in the Unix marketplace and our partnership with the company will allow Oracle to take advantage of the momentum they have generated over the last few years.
expect people
We can't take anything away if we expect people to upgrade. It's got to be a superset,