You Cannot Innovate By Copying.

If An Open Source Product Gets Good Enough, We'll Simply Take It. So The Great Thing About Open Source Is Nobody Owns It - A Company Like Oracle Is Free To Take It For Nothing, Include It In Our Products And Charge For Support, And That's What We'll Do. So It Is Not Disruptive At All - You Have To Find Places To Add Value. Once Open Source Gets Good Enough, Competing With It Would Be Insane. We Don't Have To Fight Open Source, We Have To Exploit Open Source.

I Was Vehemently Against Acquisitions. Now Let's Buy Everything In Sight. Well, That's A Slight Exaggeration. We Are A Little More Strategic Than That. But Everything Was On Sale.

I Have Hobbies. I Do All Sorts Of Ridiculous Things.

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.

If Your Cash Is About To Run Out, You Have To Cut Your Cash Flow. Ceos Have To Make Those Decisions And Live With Them However Painful They May Be. You Have To Act And Act Now; And Act In The Best Interest Of The Company As A Whole, Even If It Means That Some People In The Company Who Are Your Best Friends Have To Work Somewhere Else.