Quotations

«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.»

«Oracle is halfway to Fusion. A year later, we're 50 percent done and that's the tough half. [We're] pretty proud of that.»

«Oracle is halfway to Fusion. One year later, half the job is done and it's the toughest half.»

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

«We are already halfway through the development process of Oracle Fusion Applications, and we remain on track for the 2008 target delivery.»

«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.»

«When it comes to IT spending, banking is the granddaddy of all industries, ... They spend a lot more on technology compared with other industries.»

«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,»

«[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.»

«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.»