Larry Ellison Number Quotations

Siebel's 4,000 applications customers and 3,400,000 CRM users strengthen our number one position in applications in North America and move us closer to the number one position in applications globally.

We are optimistic about becoming number one in the middleware business,

We are clearly not No. 1 in middleware. You will see us do a number of things in that space, including acquisitions.

We believe that our growth and PeopleSoft's decline resulted in part from an increase in our competitive win rate over PeopleSoft, and the fact that we are beginning to replace PeopleSoft at a number of major accounts,

In a single step, Oracle becomes the number one CRM applications company in the world,

All our acquisitions are designed to move us into the number one position. Because we believe the lion's share of profits go to category leaders.