It's Microsoft versus mankind, with Microsoft having only a slight lead.
From Larry Ellison
To model yourself after Steve Jobs is like, 'I'd like to paint like Picasso, what should I do? Should I use more red?'
Bill Gates wants people to think he's Edison, when he's really Rockefeller. Referring to Gates as the smartest man in America isn't right... wealth isn't the same thing as intelligence.
Bill Gates is the pope of the personal computer industry. He decides who's going to build.
A corporation's primary goal is to make money. Government's primary role is to take a big chunk of that money and give it to others.
Our goal is very simply to become the desktop for e-businesses.
I started NetSuite. NetSuite was my idea. I called up Evan Goldberg and said, 'We're going to do ERP on the Internet, software-as-a-service.' Six months later Marc Benioff, finding out what NetSuite was doing, and kind of copied it.
They don't call it the Internet anymore, they call it cloud computing. I'm no longer resisting the name. Call it what you want.
Autonomy was shopped to us. We looked at the price and thought it was absurdly high.
We have most of the software industry running Autonomy.
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