Jeff Henley
Jeff Henley
Jeffrey O. "Jeff" Henley is an American businessman and the vice chairman of Oracle Corporation, having previously served as chairman...
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Business continues to be extremely robust, which makes us bullish on the second quarter and the rest of the year, ... We think margins will continue to expand, and sales pipelines look good again this quarter.
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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.
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We have an enormous sales pipeline for both applications and technology, ... Typically that's proven to be a good indicator of how we'll do.
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Each quarter throughout this next year I think we should do a bit better, although we certainly don't expect any sharp improvements.
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We're very optimistic about the third quarter and beyond, ... We have seen no slowing of our business, even though we believe that the U.S. economy and the PC industry are slowing. Our business is not at all correlated with the PC industry. We are fortunate to be in the right place at the right time.
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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,
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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.
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Every shareholder we met recognized the sizable synergies involved in this offer,
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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,
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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.
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As far as we can tell, technology spending for enterprise hardware and software remains very soft and does not appear to be improving.
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Nine months ago, we set out to save one billion dollars annually by using our own Internet e-Business applications, ... That billion dollar savings translates to a 10 point improvement in our margin.
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Solid execution in the field, a strengthening competitive position, and an improving economy contributed to results that were above expectations,