Charles Phillips Quotes (51 Quotes)

We went up there and Lynd was out at the time, one day, we went up there. And he had some young ladies in there, and the question was raised to them, were they registrars. They said, We are employees. They wouldn't accept the fact that they were able to register anybody in the absence of Lynd. He was the only person that could register us. Any other citizens could go in and it would be all right but, we couldn't.

We've announced lifetime support. It's up to us to put enough value in there that you plan to upgrade.

Grand, gloomy, and peculiar, he sat upon the throne a sceptred hermit, wrapped in the solitude of his own originality.

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.

We're an open company and support many databases.

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.

We have more on-demand customers. A big percentage over time will want us to choose those applications. We will have enough power products at this layer for it to makes sense.

We've been working with IBM the last couple of weeks on this and with applications in the future. Oracle views the IBM-Oracle project as one of the most important customer-focused projects under way at our company.

The fast rate of development, high literacy rate and availability of information technology skills in each of these cities represent an untapped reservoir of future economic wealth.

Customers haven't been shy about giving us their opinion.

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.'

It's going to take collectively lots of these units over time, to create some measurable value for shareholders. They have a lot of shares outstanding and to make a difference they'd have to have some pretty big actions to float to investors.

We're increasingly interested in open source as a way of reaching customers we can't reach today.

We used to hold those secret meetings at her house.

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.

This was the first time many of our new customers heard our strategy, ... Clearly some of them were waiting until they heard more from company and I think they heard exactly what they wanted to hear.

You couldn't keep a record. You couldn't keep any minutes, you know. You'd have a meeting at, say, my house today. And the next week or two, you'd have it at his house. And the next one, at some other place, not the same place all the time. And that's the way you had to keep those folks from knowing where you was having your meetings.

We're starting with something I believe was a generation ahead of what was out there all it needed was scale. And Oracle can bring scale.

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.

It's a rare occasion when someone important in the (software) industry decides not to support Linux,

When we go into an industry, we go all the way.

The integrated suite, what we're known for, lowers the cost of ownership. That shouldn't be translated as locking anyone in. It will be open.

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.

The business-intelligence apps, called Siebel Analytics, represent an area Oracle covets--namely, providing closer to real-time visibility into customer-facing business processes. This is another area that's very strategic to us, ... The technology is very impressive.

This is a comprehensive best-of-breed Business Intelligence offering that spans multiple categories.

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.

We've already talked about premium support for the next five years and till 2013. There will be versions of support that last forever. We want people to feel protected,

I don't know how a fellow looks, when he meets somebody that he hasn't seen, hasn't heard of, don't know where they are, know nothing about the house, whatever.

People were walking and they had formed the car pools. People were driving folks to work. Others were walking to work, where it wasn't too far.

Siebel's expertise with industry-specific customer-facing applications combined with rich analytics will not only serve as the centerpiece of our CRM strategy for Oracle Fusion Applications, but can also be used to extend our current customers investments today.

We said, Because if you don't give us two drivers by Monday morning, we're going to shut your bus company down. Oh, he was a boastful kind. He said, No Negroes want to stop riding my bus.

Because you remember Meredith was walking along the highway there and somebody shot him.

There are probably way too many integration specialists from the software perspective -- but as in most markets, about three companies are getting 70 percent of the market. So the market will start to consolidate if not through acquisition then through de facto market share gains.

In my view, the forecast looks conservative.

We went to Detroit. I wanted to see what was going on in some other parts of the world. You know, I was just traveling, like. I had a minister that lived here. He was in St. Louis and he said things was going so well and that it was such a wonderful place.

Some teachers had been trained to work out at Southern because I carried two out there. I carried a lady down here from Palmer's Crossing, used to play piano, and Billy Carter.

With today's announcement, we are giving customers the best of both worlds more value from existing applications, which we plan to enhance indefinitely, and an option to upgrade free-of-charge to future technologies, if customers have a business case to do so.

From what we've seen, what (Siebel) built was very impressive and that will give us more momentum,

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.

We've been in the on-demand hosting business five years,

They just didn't have the sense of the strength of their vote. Just thought it wasn't necessary.

We think open source has (played) an important part in introducing new customers, who we wouldn't have known about, to the idea of databases, ... When they want to do something more serious...they very quickly jump onto Oracle.

Maybe, we should have talked to you before we bought it.

Even more critical to Oracle's future, however, was Phillips's announcement of Oracle Fusion Architecture (OFA), the company's massive SOA, combining the flexibility of model-driven process design and service- and event-enabled applications with ease of integration from its open, standards-based, hot-pluggable platform, and the scalability inherent in Oracle's grid computing architecture. In 1925 business consultant Frederick Taylor said, 'Business processes are work processes tucked away in manuals.' The same thing is true today, but with applications instead of manuals, ... The Oracle Fusion Architecture is a unifying model of emerging trends in grid computing architecture, service-oriented architecture, and enterprise information architecture. It gives customers and partners a good view of the direction that Oracle is taking to make the most of our core strengths in database, middleware, and business applications.

That's where their office was, at the time, and talked with the manager about hiring two black drivers. He said he didn't have any openings.

The Voters League was, because you'd get ballots printed and they would have the people's names on the ballot, who was favorable to our movement.

We have defined Oracle Fusion architecture, certified all Oracle applications on our world-class Oracle Fusion middleware, which includes a set of mature tools that are being used to develop the Oracle Fusion applications.

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.

They didn't know anything about the candidates and things of that sort. So they needed guidance. And that league was very instrumental in directing the people in the direction to go.

We'd love to get to a mode where we're looking at the number of employees served, the number of checks processed--you name it, some business metric--and take it out of the technology realm and tie our success to their success in terms of business.