Think Of It As You Want It,

I Wish Hp Nothing But The Best. I Think Hp Is An Icon. Those Of Us Who Had Their Careers In The Valley Think Of Dave Packard And Bill Hewlett As Role Models. We Would Love To Be Half As Good As They Were.

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.

You Have To Take A Broader View And Realize This Is An Industry Like Any Other - Telecoms, Railroads; They Went Through Consolidation. Why Shouldn't The Computer Industry Be Any Different? This Shouldn't Have Been A Surprise To Anybody But It Seemed To Be, And A Lot Of People Thought I Was Nuts When I Said These Things. And That's Why They Are Alone As A Consolidator.

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 Think After A Certain Amount, I’m Going To Give Almost Everything I Have To Charity. What Else Can You Do With It? You Can't Spend It, Even If You Try. I've Been Trying.