Bruce Cleveland Quotations

the people in the company who have mortgages to pay are taken care of. Oracle is sending all the right signals.

Siebel CRM OnDemand was built on Siebel 7.5.2, and the fact is that that product line runs on any database and any application server. We created a partnership with IBM and we chose for that partnership, for obvious reasons, to run it on WebSphere and DB2. There is no technical linkage. We can make a different decision going forward if we choose.

I think you could expect that by the end of the year we'll have a strong understanding of how we're going to integrate our current products with Oracle's, and an understanding of the product road maps that lead into Fusion.

I think this puts a lot of competitive pressure in the marketplace. The first entrant in a market isn't necessarily the ultimate winner. Marc may have created awareness for an interesting market opportunity, but I don't believe this is game over. It has been our intent and will continue to be our intent to take all of our products and services and deliver them in an on-demand form factor.

Over time, all of our solutions sets will be offered on all platforms, We're going to integrate the user interface so tightly with Microsoft ( Profile , Products , Articles ) Office that Microsoft Office can actually serve as the primary interface for any user.

I think it would be safe to say that if that ends up being a more cost-effective way of deploying our on-demand applications, we'll pursue it.

You can't drive your own agenda, ... Customers drive your agenda for you. Customers cannot be disrupted, period. Oracle is a professional, ethical, large company. They're not going to disrupt any of our customers.

An SOA is a collection of these services communicating with each other, either through simple passage of data or a coordinated effort to do a task. To get them to communicate, you need Web services. We used to buy a stereo system as a single integrated unit, all hardwired together--the speakers, the receiver, the tuner, and the turntable. Some stereos had a better receiver, while some had a better turntable. One day somebody figured, 'Hey, wouldn't it be great if we could mix and match components?' Now the bits and pieces work together, connected by standardized wiring.

They have to be able to fuse technology with business processes and the role of a given, specific user.

If you want to consume any of the applets or engines that are in the 8.0 product line within an SOA, you can. That sets us up well for the next-generation SCA technology.