Jim Shepherd Quotations

When we asked participants which vendors would be considered in 2006 for their ERP purchases, Microsoft Business Solutions led the pack. Our research indicates that there will be a huge surge in ERP spending in 2006. With companies of all sizes growing their ERP budgets, this is bound to be a banner year for top vendors in this space.

I am trusting of the prime minister, the premier of the province and the government of the United States to stick to a commitment that's been made.

He certainly doesn't have to be educated on the issue.

I think there would be an awkwardness to say the least for a Canadian company to walk in the door and say where do we go from here.

Our research indicates that there will be a huge surge in ERP spending in 2006. With companies of all sizes growing their ERP budgets, this is bound to be a banner year for top vendors in this space.

The only decision we have made is to start this way. We have not made any decisions going forward in the future, and what it might mean to our position down the road.

Establishing Oracle Fusion Middleware is vitally important for Oracle. They can't buy companies in every vertical.

Establishing Oracle Fusion Middleware is vitally important for Oracle, ... They can't buy companies in every vertical.

Companies in the eastern part of the United States are overburdened with their operating costs, and they're no longer competitive. It's a tragedy in the firearms industry.

They must realize that even if ERP doesn't manage these functions as well as what they had, the benefit to the organization of having a single system of record outweighs the inconvenience of a less capable system.

There was nothing in the business model that made MBS unprofitable, it was just Microsoft didn't need the profits from MBS so they made the decision to spend more than what they were taking in on the business. MBS has been making steady progress. They had a hiccup last year where revenue's were disappointing. Clearly, growing faster than the market is always a good thing.

It's unfortunate because it's one of the great American brands.

It's harder for niche vendors to survive and grow, and we'll see more and more of those guys getting bought.

I believe that 2005 will be remembered as the year that the safety record of the industry finally received the attention and the outrage that it should have had many years ago.