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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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 reality is that an Oracle deal would cost PeopleSoft customers. They have a vested interest in keeping PeopleSoft independent,
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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.