Because software is all about scale. The larger you are, the more profitable you are. If we sell twice as much as software, it doesn't cost us twice as much to build that software. So the more customers you have, the more scale you have. The larger you are, the more profitable you are.
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 EllisonWe will still be enormously profitable and by far the most profitable enterprise software company.
Larry EllisonIt's my job for Oracle, the number two software company in the world; to become the number one software company in the world. My job is to build better than the competition, sell those products in the marketplace and eventually supplant Microsoft and move from being number two to number one.
Larry Ellison