The Computer Industry Is The

You Have To Take A Broader View And Realize This Is An Industry Like Any Other - Telecoms, Railroads; They Went Through Consolidation. Why Shouldn't The Computer Industry Be Any Different? This Shouldn't Have Been A Surprise To Anybody But It Seemed To Be, And A Lot Of People Thought I Was Nuts When I Said These Things. And That's Why They Are Alone As A Consolidator.

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."

You Have To Believe In What You Do In Order To Get What You Want.

I Was Vehemently Against Acquisitions. Now Let's Buy Everything In Sight. Well, That's A Slight Exaggeration. We Are A Little More Strategic Than That. But Everything Was On Sale.

I Think I Am Very Goal Oriented. I'd Like To Win The America's Cup. I'd Like Oracle To Be The No 1 Software Company In The World. I Still Think It Is Possible To Beat Microsoft.