27 Quotes by David Hilal

Web services are only going to work if Java and .Net are going to be interoperable.

Let's not ignore the fundamental course of business.

Licensing is the story. All that other growth from services and maintenance comes from having new software business.

Siebel was in a world of hurt. For Tom Siebel to sell to Larry Ellison, this is his worst nightmare. That shows the dire straits Siebel was in.

Most software companies risk losing market share if their products get out the door late and behind competitors. If Vista is late, there obviously is no meaningful market share loss.

Netscape is less and less of a priority for AOL Time Warner, and this is just another step in the slow sun-setting process of Netscape Navigator.

People will move into software next year. It's a question of when, not if.

If the DOJ were to appeal, this would have dragged the case on even longer regardless of what the companies wanted to do. We're not in legal limbo anymore. The dominos are falling.

The applications business continues to stumble and this quarter shows that. Oracle doesn't have the best applications products. That's why they want to buy PeopleSoft.