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It's Fascinating As We Continue To Innovate And Lead The Way In Both The Application Space And The Database Space. In The Very Beginning, People Said You Couldn't Make Relational Databases Fast Enough To Be Commercially Viable. I Thought We Could, And We Were The First To Do It. But We Took Tremendous Abuse Until Ibm Said, "oh Yeah, This Stuff Is Good."

Really Great Blogs Do Not Take The Place Of Great Microprocessors. Great Blogs Do Not Replace Great Software. Lots And Lots Of Blogs Does Not Replace Lots And Lots Of Sales.

If You Do Everything That Everyone Else Does In Business, You're Going To Lose. The Only Way To Really Be Ahead, Is To 'be Different'.

I Saw That We Needed To Grow But Our Top Line Wasn't Growing, So We Had To Find Other Ways To Grow The Business. We Had To Reshape Our Business And Acquire Share In A Non Conventional Way. But Most Tech Leaders Don't Come Out Of A Business Background. They Really Have A Parochial Point Of View. All They Know Are The Go-go Years Of Silicon Valley. That's The Environment In Which They Were Raised.

When You Live Your Life In Different Ways, It Makes People Around You Become Uncomfortable. So Deal With It. They Don't Know What You Are Going To Do.