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I Am Also Involved With All The Acquisitions And Overall Strategy. Now It's True, I Don't Run Operations. But I've Never Really Run Operations. I've Never Had The Endurance To Run Sales. The Whole Idea Of Selling To The Customer Just Isn't My Personality. I'm An Engineer, Tell Me Why Something Isn't Working Or Is And I Am Curious.

The Things That Caused Problems For Me In School Are The Same Things That Help Me Succeed In The World.

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

I Think I Am Very Goal Oriented. I'd Like To Win The America's Cup. I'd Like Oracle To Be The No 1 Software Company In The World. I Still Think It Is Possible To Beat Microsoft.

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."