Charles Phillips
Charles Phillips
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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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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.
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This is a customer driven event. Our joint customers have consistently recommended this transaction to both companies for over a year.
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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.
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To the extent that they're shifting the focus on shareholder value, that's a good thing and people want to hear that,
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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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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.
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We can't take anything away if we expect people to upgrade. It's got to be a superset,
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