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We used to be friends a long time ago, ... a good deal of social time with Bill. Less so recently.

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PeopleSoft is doing everything it can to prevent its shareholders from voting, ... If PeopleSoft's Board is so convinced that the J.D. Edwards acquisition is a great deal, why won't it let their shareholders vote on it

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Last quarter we got through it with record profitability record margins, ... In light of Sept. 11, it will be very difficult for us to do that again this quarter.

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The offering essentially is a juiced-up Oracle database that also happens to run e-mail, voicemail, calendar and file-sharing functions. The suites always win, ... The specialty guys can never survive for long.

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Arcade Planet is leveraging its expertise in the coin-operated amusement and video game industry to offer an unmatched online entertainment experience.

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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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I have had all of the disadvantages required for success.

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We had a very, very large CRM development organization, so there are some moves there. We had more people than we need to develop CRM.

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Siebel is the categorical leader in CRM and understands it better than anyone else on the planet, ... This action makes building Fusion products easier not harder.

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While that may underscore our database growth in the fourth quarter, it bodes extremely well for database sales in the first quarter, and the second quarter and the third quarter, ... It's because we didn't sweep the table in the fourth quarter and we will never sweep the table again.

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The growth of corporate intranets and the World Wide Web is driving demand for both the Oracle8i database and our applications.

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We think this year, this wonderful year, was our period of adjustment, ... We think that transition is behind us and top-line growth will look a lot better this coming year. Our pipeline is just over the moon.

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All of Tom's experience will be very valuable to Oracle for the next couple of years, ... I have no problem with him saying not-nice things about me in the past. I might have said some things about him. I forget. That's all water under the bridge. We're on the same team again.

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We 're not changing our strategy. We have an Internet strategy we decided that four years ago.

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An appropriate setup for some businesses might be to use midrange servers for the database and smaller servers for their applications, he said. However, in a couple of years it's not inconceivable that we could be recommending Intel-based servers for everything, ... It's not out of the question.

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You'll see us controlling our costs, and one of the ways we control costs is by managing headcount, ... I don't think there is any company out there now that is not being asked to do more with less.

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Our target has been low double-digit growth for databases, so we were not that far off.

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Our goal is very simply to become the desktop for e-businesses.

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everyone's going online, all the time, everywhere.

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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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When you innovate, you've got to be prepared for everyone telling you you're nuts.

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I have been working more, ... That's true, and the reason I'm working more is this is an extraordinary opportunity. My industry and in fact, every industry soon is going through this tectonic change.

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Back in 1995, it was very clear to us that we had to stop doing desktop software and we don't do any desktop Windows software, ... We moved everything to big Internet servers. Our database is designed for the Internet, our applications are designed for the Internet.

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If you want to place blame, look at plunging profits, sagging demand and uncertain outlooks. Just today, for example, Adobe dropped sharply after the company lowered its profit outlook for the next quarter. Most tech companies have limited visibility as it is, and the uncertainty brought about by last week's attacks won't help. We don't think things are recovering, ... and in light of the latest events in New York and D.C., we're anticipating things to be slightly worse.

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I will continue to offer my advice to Apple CEO Steve Jobs and the executive management team at Apple, but my schedule does not currently allow me to attend enough of the formal board meetings to warrant a role as director.

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