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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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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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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There is a very real risk to Oracle. All of the enterprise software companies are making a major push down market.
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These software stocks are all overvalued on the fundamentals that we see today.
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This is traditionally a weak quarter but software right now has just flat-lined. Expectations are pretty low.
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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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Pricing pressures are definitely an issue for software companies. This strikes me as a clear sign that things are still not getting better,
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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.
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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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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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Even though these numbers on an absolute basis look cheap, we view it as not being as cheap as it looks,