Those That Believe This Is Merely A

All You Can Do Is Every Day, Try To Solve A Problem And Make Your Company Better. You Can't Worry About It, You Can't Panic When You Look At The Stock Market's Decline. You Get Frozen Like A Deer In The Headlights. All You Can Do Is All You Can Do.

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.

Five Years From Now, I Don't Know How I'll Think.

I Think About The Business All The Time. Well I Shouldn't Say All The Time. I Don't Think About It When I Am Wakeboarding. But Even When I Am On Vacation, Or On My Boat; I Am On Email Everyday. I Am Always Prowling Around The Internet Looking At What Our Competitors Are Doing.

I Have Run Engineering Since Day One At Oracle, And I Still Run Engineering. I Hold Meetings Every Week With The Database Team, The Middle Ware Team, The Applications Team. I Run Engineering And I Will Do That Until The Board Throws Me Out Of There.