More - Larry Ellison Quotes

I think the applications space will be diverse and complex five years from now,

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 Space

Apple needs to worry about doing something different. It's back to innovation and creativity.

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 Creativity

Those that believe this is merely a cyclical downturn are mad. Our industry is going to mature and, as something matures, the rate of innovation does slow.

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 Believe

When I first came into this industry I was told that IBM was not someone against whom you would compete, ... That IBM was not a company. They were more like a country and a great country at that, and that I shouldn't even think of competing with IBM.

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Microsoft is already the most powerful company on earth, but you ain't seen nothing yet,

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 Company

Siebel's 4,000 applications customers and 3,400,000 CRM users strengthen our number one position in applications in North America and move us closer to the number one position in applications globally.

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As the Internet grows, that's driving our top line, ... Last quarter, our software business grew 30 percent.

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 Business

We highlighted 10 of our more than 450 customers that are currently live after just one year of the e-business suite.

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We are clearly not No. 1 in middleware. You will see us do a number of things in that space, including acquisitions.

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 Space

It's a nontrivial process to supply certification…. IBM is much better equipped to go through it (than many companies). I'm not sure I can say that for these other databases,

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