SAP is a great company, but they have their work cut out for them if they want to compete in databases. Safra A. Catz companycompetecut Change image and share on social
When we do acquisitions, we decide what we want. We decide what fills a hole. And if the price is too high, our alternative is the $5 billion we spend on R&D every year. We're not well-known for overpaying, because at Oracle we always have an alternative. Safra A. Catz acquisitionalternativebillion share on social
We got bigger, much scarier competitors. We ended up with Microsoft, a company with all the money in the world, the way I look at those guys. And IBM, another company that, historically, dwarfed us. Safra A. Catz bigcompanycompetitor Change image and share on social
Netweaver was going to be the number one middleware player in the world. We heard about Netweaver day and night. Oracle became number one. No one talks about Netweaver. Safra A. Catz dayhearmiddleware Change image and share on social
My best decision was to choose to go to Wall Street over law. I learned a lot and focused on the expanding software industry at a time when the independent software industry was just beginning. Safra A. Catz beginchoosedecision Change image and share on social
In 1986, Microsoft and Oracle went public within a day of each other, and I recall telling one of my colleagues that the software business will become big. So I started working with software companies in the mid-'80s and never turned back. Safra A. Catz 80sbackbig share on social
