Richard Williams
Richard Williams
Animator who won a 1989 Academy Award for his work on the live action/animation hybrid film "Who Framed Roger Rabbit." "The Thief and the Cobbler" became his unfinished masterpiece.
ProfessionCartoonist
Date of Birth19 March 1933
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This year, our line is not as big. We don't have as many players at the skill positions and we're not as deep as last year or the year before.
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Also, they're halfway through their quarter. In the software business, usually the last month represents 70 to 80 percent of their business and the last week it's sometimes 50 percent of that. So, six weeks in, unless you're having a total disaster, it's unlikely that this is the issue.
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To buy (Siebel) and combine them along with other smaller acquisitions into Oracle in a very short time is an unprecedented task in terms of difficulty. It's not easy by any stretch, and that is a lot of risk to try to do that in a short time with a bunch of different technologies.
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We didn't give our best effort. We started growing up tonight. With the results, it's evident. This was a critical first step.
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We see cannibalism as the only way to survive right now for the big players. There are a lot of software companies out there that can't grow.
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Even though these numbers on an absolute basis look cheap, we view it as not being as cheap as it looks,
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As there'll be some rotation among some members, there's a need for some others to serve for a longer period.
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We see tremendous market acceptance when Microsoft's next big enterprise software product comes out. And when you look at the sheer numbers, it's arguably as big a market as the original Windows market,
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This news is more than anything a warning shot to the rest of software that everybody is going to be involved in a feeding frenzy. You are going to see a lot of smaller players go away.
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I have had friends and family ask why we cannot get something done about this.
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I'd like for her to be able to take the very first shot and put pressure on her opponent. I think she's attacking too much. I don't think you should do all that attacking. When you're attacking that much, no one can consistently hit the ball that hard, unless they're making a bunch of errors. So just attack the first ball.
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I would be a liar if I said my desire to get back into the ring had never waned,
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My father was a doctor and I was born in our home, where he had his practice,
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Now the question is 'What is the right price for the shares?'.