I Have Had All The Disadvantages Required

What Can A Sales Person Say To Somebody To Get Them To Buy A Product That They Already Use Every Day If They Don't Like It? Nothing.

When You're The First Person Whose Beliefs Are Different From What Everyone Else Believes, You're Basically Saying, "i'm Right, And Everyone Else Is Wrong." That's A Very Unpleasant Position To Be In. It's At Once Exhilarating And At The Same Time An Invitation To Be Attacked.

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.

Most Companies Don't Want Their Data Co-mingled With Other Customers. Small Companies Will Tolerate It.

So What Makes Me Happy? I Was Really Happy To Build This House. That's It; Building Things. The Trouble With Software Is That It's Very Hard To Show Your Aunt In Florida What You've Done.