I'm Right, And Everyone Else

Once Open Source Gets Good Enough, Competing With It Would Be Insane.

All You Can Do Is All You Can Do.

I Hate The Pc, With A Passion.

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."

If An Open Source Product Gets Good Enough, We'll Simply Take It. So The Great Thing About Open Source Is Nobody Owns It - A Company Like Oracle Is Free To Take It For Nothing, Include It In Our Products And Charge For Support, And That's What We'll Do. So It Is Not Disruptive At All - You Have To Find Places To Add Value. Once Open Source Gets Good Enough, Competing With It Would Be Insane. We Don't Have To Fight Open Source, We Have To Exploit Open Source.