Jeff Henley
Jeff Henley
Jeffrey O. "Jeff" Henley is an American businessman and the vice chairman of Oracle Corporation, having previously served as chairman...
believe beyond continue quarter visibility
Visibility beyond the upcoming quarter is minimal, but we continue to believe that we will see year-over-year improvements.
case forward last remains visibility
Our visibility going forward remains very limited, as has been the case for the last 18 months,
decides delayed environment force high management press projects sales sell smarter
In addition, our sales force is getting smarter about how to sell in this environment. Finally, high (return on investment) projects around e-business can only get delayed so long before management decides they need to press ahead.
appear enterprise far hardware remains software spending technology
As far as we can tell, technology spending for enterprise hardware and software remains very soft and does not appear to be improving.
base business continues customers economic high increased levels license maintain research rights spending strength though underlying update
Even during an economic downturn, Oracle's installed base of customers continues to grow, so our revenues from license update rights continue to rise. That's the underlying strength in our business model. That's what allows us to maintain our profitability at high levels even though we increased research and development spending by 15 percent,
did not do as well as we think it should have.
although bit certainly expect next quarter sharp throughout year
Each quarter throughout this next year I think we should do a bit better, although we certainly don't expect any sharp improvements.
again annual billion dollars improved improvement last margin operating percent points quarter savings
A billion dollars in annual savings translates to a 10-point improvement in our margins. We did better than that again this quarter. In the first quarter our operating margin improved over last year's by 11.7 points -- from 17.4 percent to 29.1 percent.
boys city district father kids owe reflected shot twin
After September, I've reflected on the campaign, and being a new father of twin boys, I really feel like I owe it to the kids in the city to give this a shot and make this district a better place.
ask board deserve fiscal huge oversight responsibility school sit spending
Fiscal oversight and fiscal responsibility are a huge, huge part of being a school board member. We can sit here all day long and ask Albany for more money, but if we're not spending it wisely, we don't deserve it.
business concern database definitely half improvement shown
There was a concern that our database business was not doing well, but it's definitely shown a significant improvement from the first half of the year,