Richard Williams may refer to: (wikipedia)
I don't think things have changed. I just think they're more camouflaged and covered up. If things had changed, when I was walking down those steps that guy wouldn't have called me nigger.
All my life I've been waiting for this, and now it can happen. A Williams is going to win.
There is a very real risk to Oracle. All of the enterprise software companies are making a major push down market.
This strikes me as a trial balloon, ... Management may be getting tired of the harping on the dividend so if they give investors a quarter of the cash to shut people up, then the company can get back to business.
I would be a liar if I said my desire to get back into the ring had never waned,
To buy (Siebel) and combine them along with other smaller acquisitions into Oracle in a very short time is an unprecedented task in terms of difficulty. It's not easy by any stretch, and that is a lot of risk to try to do that in a short time with a bunch of different technologies.
It's premature to be able to gauge what's really happening with corporate demand. Long-term investors need to wait and get more data before making any decisions about these stocks.
People power saves PeopleSoft. Customer loyalty is such a powerful force and it was underestimated,
The bet that computer vendors are making as they build up inventory is that fourth quarter sales will see a big surge. If we don't get that it will be trouble for software, ... Everything comes down to the fourth quarter.
The biggest lesson we've learned from this is just how serious Oracle is to find another revenue source, ... It's painfully obvious that their own business is not doing well enough that they are pursuing this with such ferocity.
