Oracle Quotes


[This news] is likely to contribute to the investor notion that Oracle's ability to grow its database business is constrained. - Kevin Buttigieg


[These days, many companies are cutting back on their technology purchases. Oracle's alternative service] for $10 a month will do all your accounting, all your human resources, all your customer relationship management ... all you need is a cheap PC with a Web browser, ... The customer saves money and it's much easier for the customer not to deal with the technical details. - Larry Ellison


[The Siebel integration into Oracle will not be difficult from a human consideration standpoint either, Phillips said.] How will we put the companies together? Many Siebel employees worked at Oracle once before. The cultures are not as different as people on the outside may think. ... Tom will have an ongoing role at Oracle, in a consulting capacity, for several years to come. - Tom Siebel


[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. - Larry Ellison


[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. - Charles Phillips


[Some observers wondered about the logic of the changes.] The overall plan makes sense, as does [Ray] Ozzie's role. [But] I am still digesting why MSN would be part of the Platform group and not the Entertainment division. I can think of some good reasons for it but can also come up with strong counterarguments... I also hope that these new delineations will not impede the developer group from working closely with the MBS [Microsoft Business Solutions] and Office teams. Any dilution there would be most unfortunate, especially with Oracle [Corp.] becoming such a formidable CRM [customer relationship management] and ERP [enterprise resource planning] player. - Andrew Brust


[IBM could be a loser in the deal. The company has a longstanding partnership with Siebel, hosting its on-demand software, which also runs on the DB2 database platform. IBM senior VP Steve Mills acknowledged in a conference call last week that Oracle won't be warm to that arrangement, but IBM hasn't said whether it will ditch its relationship with Siebel. Mills downplayed the impact on IBM, saying there are thousands of apps vendors looking to align themselves more closely with the company.] The ecosystem readjusts itself... For every action, there is a reaction. - Steve Mills


[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. - Charles Phillips


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