42 Quotes by Charles Phillips

We supply technology and applications to more than 90% of communications companies worldwide today, and billing is a logical and complementary addition for those customers.

It is a team environment. People who do well at Oracle are people who understand that and don't mind exchanging ideas.

I said good morning, and came on out. That afternoon when we came back, Gus here on Klondike flagged my uncle down and told him to come back there. He went back to see what he wanted and he was raising sand. Said his wife told him that I looked like I wanted to rape their daughter, somewhere in a room.

Right, right, he saw his power slipping away. And he said, "Now I'd better join the band here." They gave us their support. It was going along quite well.

Oracle is halfway to Fusion. One year later, half the job is done and it's the toughest half.

Some of the managers missed some of the initial run up in tech stocks, ... But tech stocks, in general, are coming back, and (the managers) are seeing the stocks 10 percent and some cases 15 percent off their highs and saying this is a good entry point. Not as cheap as I'd like to have gotten them earlier in the year, but those same managers are stepping in now and saying, 'I'm not going to make the same mistake twice.'

The advantage that Oracle has in the wireless Web area is its deep reach into corporate computing. They will offer business users a combination of consumer news and the ability to interact with a corporate application wirelessly.

You know, I had spoke to Pugh earlier about joining the organization. Pugh told me he wasn't going to have anything to do with that mess.

We're betting he's the next CEO of Oracle so you better get to know him if you don't already,