Larry Ellison Quotes (88 Quotes)

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.

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.

We're very excited about this product. It's one of our biggest announcements for many, many years. It's the result of years of innovation and hard work.

When you're the first person whose beliefs are different from what everyone else believes, you're basically saying, I'm right, and everyone else is wrong. That's a very unpleasant position to be in. It's at once exhilarating and at the same time an invitation to be attacked.

Right now, 70 percent of the people don't have computers. And where they're needed most, people don't have them. We think this will enable anyone to own a computer. We're aiming at everybody who uses a computer as an information access device. The original idea was to build one cheaply enough to put one on every desk,

All the information about you as a patient would be in one spot, ... The idea here is to stop collecting paper.

They are the only ones who destroyed the most innovative company in Silicon Valley in the past decade -- Netscape Communications, ... They paid people not to ship Netscape's browser. They're special.

People like you are supposed to expose this stuff, ... People like us are just trying to help. I never knew that we were doing any of this stuff, but if Microsoft is creating front organizations, I feel very good about bringing that information to the public.

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.

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

License growth was strong in the first two months of the quarter, and our internal sales forecast looked good up until the last few days of the quarter,

All our acquisitions are designed to move us into the number one position. Because we believe the lion's share of profits go to category leaders.

I don't think that's an unreasonable target, ... through a combination of acquisitions and organic growth.

Its all wrong, ... Lots of little computers are a terrible idea, you can't see the big picture because it's been you know, sliced and diced and it's stored in so many different locations. We've fragmented this information. It's impossible to know what's going on.

We will still be enormously profitable and by far the most profitable enterprise software company,

Based on our current pipelines the entire management team believes that the overall year should be very strong, ... Specifically we expect that Oracle's software sales will grow faster this year than last. And margins should continue to improve as well.

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

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

In a single step, Oracle becomes the No. 1 CRM applications company in the world, ... Siebel's 4,000 applications customers and 3.4 million CRM users strengthen our No. 1 position in applications in North America and move us closer to the No. 1 position in applications globally.

Oracle's database and e-Business applications have become the software standard for the Internet, ... All 10 of the world's biggest Web sites use Oracle, as do 93 percent of the public dot.com companies. The faster the Internet grows, the faster we grow.

It also strengthens our No. 1 positions in the application business in North America. And it moves us closer to our goal of being No. 1 in applications globally.

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.

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.

At one time, BEA was very high on our list. They're less interesting to us than they used to be. They also really don't want to be bought.

We believe that our growth and PeopleSoft's decline resulted in part from an increase in our competitive win rate over PeopleSoft, and the fact that we are beginning to replace PeopleSoft at a number of major accounts,

Our applications business is strong and getting stronger, ... Oracle's new e-Business Suite puts every aspect of a business -- marketing, sales, service, procurement, supply chain, manufacturing, accounting, human resources -- everything, on the Internet. All the applications in our suite are designed and engineered to work together, so customers buying the entire suite don't need to do any systems integration.

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.

What Microsoft is doing is patently illegal. Think about it. If you want to build computers, you've got to ask Bill's permission, ... If Bill wanted to triple the price on Windows, what would you do You'd pay you wouldn't have any choice.

We highlighted 10 of our more than 450 customers that are currently live after just one year of the e-business suite.

Four years ago at Telecom 95, I made some people very angry when I said the PC is a ridiculous device, ... Now the Internet has pushed the PC off stage, and will eventually change, not just the industry, but our economies and cultures.

We will have more than 4,000 engineers supporting PeopleSoft customers all over the world, and they can stay on PeopleSoft applications or migrate to Oracle applications at their discretion, ... It's entirely their choice. We will not shut down PeopleSoft products.

Well, about four years ago I made a provocative statement saying that the PC was a ridiculous device, ... You have to add software to your PC to make it work sometimes. The whole idea of putting a floppy disk into a PC and loading software is ridiculous. The whole idea of backing up the data on your PC is ridiculous.

But Oracle had no choice but to swallow up other companies, Ellison said. He saw it as a case of eat or be eaten. We wanted to be a survivor and consolidator, ... And we felt the only way to survive and prosper was through acquisition.

The majority of the people being laid off are Oracle employees, not Siebel employees.

Microsoft is already the most powerful company on earth, but you ain't seen nothing yet,

It's fascinating as we continue to innovate and lead the way in both the application space and the database space. In the very beginning, people said you couldn't make relational databases fast enough to be commercially viable. I thought we could, and we were the first to do it. But we took tremendous abuse until IBM said, Oh yeah, this stuff is good.

The growth rate is also higher than our database business. It's a sticky business with the license renewals and is on the high end of our value chain,

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