I'm Right, And Everyone Else Is Wrong.

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.

We Will Still Be Enormously Profitable And By Far The Most Profitable Enterprise Software Company.

Our Goal Is Simply To Become The Desktop For E-businesses.

We Have Been Doing Things That Are Contrary; The Things That People Tell Us Won't Work From The Beginning. In Fact, The Only Way To Get Ahead Is To Find Errors In Conventional Wisdom.