Bill Gates Wants People To

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.

Once Open Source Gets Good Enough, Competing With It Would Be Insane.

Think Of It As You Want It, Not As It Is!

It's Fascinating As We Continue To Innovate And Lead The Way In Both The Application Space And The Database Space. In The Very Beginning, People Said You Couldn't Make Relational Databases Fast Enough To Be Commercially Viable. I Thought We Could, And We Were The First To Do It. But We Took Tremendous Abuse Until Ibm Said, "oh Yeah, This Stuff Is Good."

To Model Yourself After Steve Jobs Is Like, 'i'd Like To Paint Like Picasso, What Should I Do? Should I Use More Red?'