Our Goal Is Simply To Become The

When You Innovate, You've Got To Be Prepared For Everyone Telling You You're Nuts.

I Started Netsuite. Netsuite Was My Idea. I Called Up Evan Goldberg And Said, 'we're Going To Do Erp On The Internet, Software-as-a-service.' Six Months Later Marc Benioff, Finding Out What Netsuite Was Doing, And Kind Of Copied It.

The Most Important Aspect Of My Personality As Far As Determining My Success Goes; Has Been My Questioning Conventional Wisdom, Doubting Experts And Questioning Authority. While That Can Be Painful In Your Relationships With Your Parents And Teachers, It's Enormously Useful In Life.

When You Write A Program For Android, You Use The Oracle Java Tools For Everything, And At The Very End, You Push A Button And Say, Convert This To Android Format.

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.