Charles Phillips
Charles Phillips
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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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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.
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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.
decides industry occasion rare support
It's a rare occasion when someone important in the (software) industry decides not to support Linux,
company open support
We're an open company and support many databases.
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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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Because you remember Meredith was walking along the highway there and somebody shot him.
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Some teachers had been trained to work out at Southern because I carried two out there. I carried a lady down here from Palmer's Crossing, used to play piano, and Billy Carter.
american-author
When we go into an industry, we go all the way.
best both business case customers enhance existing future giving option plan upgrade value
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.
ahead believe bring generation needed oracle starting
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.
change deal either needle
The deal will not change the needle much in either direction,
centers customers data entire financial hosting human large mainly resource running
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'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.