Charles Phillips
Charles Phillips
mind oracle people team understand
It is a team environment. People who do well at Oracle are people who understand that and don't mind exchanging ideas.
afternoon came good looked raising somewhere uncle wife
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.
along band gave join power quite saw
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.
built impressive
From what we've seen, what (Siebel) built was very impressive and that will give us more momentum,
addition billing companies logical supply technology worldwide
We supply technology and applications to more than 90% of communications companies worldwide today, and billing is a logical and complementary addition for those customers.
american-author
When we go into an industry, we go all the way.
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.
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.
betting ceo next oracle
We're betting he's the next CEO of Oracle so you better get to know him if you don't already,
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,
choose layer percentage power products time
We have more on-demand customers. A big percentage over time will want us to choose those applications. We will have enough power products at this layer for it to makes sense.
american-author earlier joining spoke
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.
change deal either needle
The deal will not change the needle much in either direction,
couple ibm last oracle project projects views weeks
We've been working with IBM the last couple of weeks on this and with applications in the future. Oracle views the IBM-Oracle project as one of the most important customer-focused projects under way at our company.