Software Competition Quotes

It's my job for Oracle, the number two software company in the world; to become the number one software company in the world. My job is to build better than the competition, sell those products in the marketplace and eventually supplant Microsoft and move from being number two to number one.

I welcome Microsoft having a store on Windows; what I've always resisted was a push to close down Windows to competing stores.

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.

SAP is a great company, but they have their work cut out for them if they want to compete in databases.

I view Linux as something that's not Microsoft - a backlash against Microsoft, no more and no less.

Microsoft has a monopoly over the desktop operating systems.

If you invest in Microsoft or Oracle, or a number of other companies for that matter, you're fundamentally making a bet that there's going to be no innovation. So an investment in Microsoft is a bet that the operating system is going to stay the same, it won't be replaced by Linux, Google Docs, or a mobile platform like iOS or Android.

Though it has plenty of competitors, Slack claims to be the 'fastest growing business application in history'.

Games take years to make, and it's important that when we launch, it can't just be a great launch catalog and then a desert for a really long time. To be honest, for a lot of developers, they'd rather not be competing at launch with all this other software.

And besides, if Perl really takes off in the Windows space, I think the rest of us would just as soon have a double-agent within ActiveState.

It's easier for our software to compete with Linux when there's piracy than when there's not.

Once open source gets good enough, competing with it would be insane.