Once Open Source Gets Good Enough, Competing

If An Innovative Piece Of Software Comes Along, Microsoft Copies It And Makes It Part Of Windows. This Is Not Innovation; This Is The End Of Innovation.

Taking Care Of Your Employees Is Extremely Important, And Very, Very Visible.

Both My Mother And I Were Determined That We Weren't Going To Stay On Welfare. We Always Worked Toward Doing Better, Toward Having A Better Life. We Never Had Any Doubts That We Would.

If An Open Source Product Gets Good Enough, We'll Simply Take It. So The Great Thing About Open Source Is Nobody Owns It - A Company Like Oracle Is Free To Take It For Nothing, Include It In Our Products And Charge For Support, And That's What We'll Do. So It Is Not Disruptive At All - You Have To Find Places To Add Value. Once Open Source Gets Good Enough, Competing With It Would Be Insane. We Don't Have To Fight Open Source, We Have To Exploit Open Source.

Winning Is A Habit. Unfortunately, So Is Losing. Sure, There’s The Talent, But There Also Has To Be The Will. Give Me Human Will And The Intense Desire To Win And It Will Trump Talent Every Day Of The Week.