42 Quotes by Charles Phillips

You have to keep in mind that in the case of PeopleSoft and Siebel, a number of people there used to work for or are partners of Oracle. So it's usually just a reunion. It's not as dramatic as it's portrayed from the outside.

We have engaged our customer base in the Fusion development process, and feel confident that 80 percent of our customers will be able to upgrade to Oracle Fusion applications and can plan to find functionality they had in earlier application versions, as well as new features coming from other applications.

Even if it may not be the most elegant or cool feature, if people are using it, and they think it's important, then it needs to be there for people to upgrade. There will be some things that we thought were cool, but no one ever used, so that doesn't make it. This is a chance to do it the right way.

Our applications provide customers with the tools they need to manage the information that runs their businesses. IBM has become the leader in the Unix marketplace and our partnership with the company will allow Oracle to take advantage of the momentum they have generated over the last few years.

You might see us with some open source products,

This is another area that's very strategic to us. The technology is very impressive.

This is a customer driven event. Our joint customers have consistently recommended this transaction to both companies for over a year.

A lot of those standards are in middleware. The next generation of applications will be a lot more middleware dependent, so you have to start there.

There wasn't any criminal act involved that the officer could see that would require any criminal investigation, ... DHS may follow up.