If the Internet turns out not to be the future of computing, we're toast. But if it is, we're golden.
Larry EllisonIf you do everything that everyone else does in business, you're going to lose. The only way to really be ahead, is to 'be different'.
Larry EllisonOracle's got 100+ enterprise applications live in the #cloud; today, SAP's got nothin' but SuccessFactors until 2020.
Larry EllisonThose that believe this is merely a downturn are mad. Our industry is going to mature and as something matures, the rate of innovation does slow.
Larry EllisonYou 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.
Larry Ellison