Charles Phillips
Charles Phillips
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.
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.
combined current customers expertise extend fusion oracle rich serve strategy
Siebel's expertise with industry-specific customer-facing applications combined with rich analytics will not only serve as the centerpiece of our CRM strategy for Oracle Fusion Applications, but can also be used to extend our current customers investments today.
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.
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.
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,
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.