Jeff Henley Business Quotations

We don't see anything for the rest of this year that looks negative at all. We think that business is going to be terrific this year.

We're very optimistic about the third quarter and beyond, ... We have seen no slowing of our business, even though we believe that the U.S. economy and the PC industry are slowing. Our business is not at all correlated with the PC industry. We are fortunate to be in the right place at the right time.

The Asia Pacific market is not any better, but business in the U.S. and Europe has really bounced back,

There was a concern that our database business was not doing well, but it's definitely shown a significant improvement from the first half of the year,

Business continues to be extremely robust, which makes us bullish on the second quarter and the rest of the year, ... We think margins will continue to expand, and sales pipelines look good again this quarter.

Even during an economic downturn, Oracle's installed base of customers continues to grow, so our revenues from license update rights continue to rise. That's the underlying strength in our business model. That's what allows us to maintain our profitability at high levels even though we increased research and development spending by 15 percent,