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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If Oracle continues to fight, this stops being an economic decision for the company and looks more and more like an emotional decision.
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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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The biggest lesson we've learned from this is just how serious Oracle is to find another revenue source, ... It's painfully obvious that their own business is not doing well enough that they are pursuing this with such ferocity.
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The reality is that an Oracle deal would cost PeopleSoft customers. They have a vested interest in keeping PeopleSoft independent,
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There will be a period of indigestion but it wouldn't surprise me to see Oracle back in late 2005 buying somebody else.
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Greg is a good fit for Oracle since he's a high-powered CFO type. And I don't think it will herald any huge change in strategy for Oracle. He'll continue to try and buy companies on the cheap,
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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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These software stocks are all overvalued on the fundamentals that we see today.
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These settlements and collaborations are clearing the table. It is a preamble to a larger strategic move, ... Microsoft is trying to keep MSN relevant.
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The stock reaction is muted considering how big these problems appear to be.
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Crouch has the stature to lead the line, his very existence sets an unusual problem for defenders, and the combination of his spidery limbs, surprisingly delicate control and patient approach allow him to hold the ball up quite effectively
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And this is what we came up with -- a private, Christian school.
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There's a fair bit of seasonality for software companies. The fourth quarter and second quarter are the biggest; the third quarter stinks because Europe is on vacation.
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There's a fair bit of seasonality for software companies, ... The fourth quarter and second quarter are the biggest; the third quarter stinks because Europe is on vacation.