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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.

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.

I'm Addicted To Winning. The More You Win, The More You Want To Win.

Once The Business Data Have Been Centralized And Integrated, The Value Of The Database Is Greater Than The Sum Of The Preexisting Parts.

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'.