Peter Graf Quotations

When the market consolidates, people (put) their investments into the biggest pile. Which open-source technologies are mature enough to survive the wave that's coming? Linux--absolutely. Eclipse? Yes. Mozilla? Most likely.

We believe the open source business applications do not have enough time to mature before this consolidation wave hits.

We think this is the beginning of a new wave where applications companies play a very different role in the future of being platforms, not just about technology, but platforms that provide fundamental, highly reusable functionality that a lot of ISVs will use to create more innovation for the customer.

We believe that software development evolves into modeling; and people, in an increasing way, will not program solutions. They will model solutions and these models are executables.

Vendor consolidation is a major trend that forces customers to consolidate their IT (information technology) landscape, ... They're redrawing their landscape without those smaller vendors who they see as being most at risk.

These composite apps are built around the user and are instantly usable, ... All of these are add-ons. You don't need to touch your existing stuff, and you don't need to be all SAP.

These composite apps are built around the user and are instantly usable. All of these are add-ons. You don't need to touch your existing stuff, and you don't need to be all SAP.

The question that customers ask themselves is, Can I bet the farm on this platform?

Right now, we have about 500 of those enterprise services published.

The mess that companies have with their IT today is unimaginable, and the larger they get the more mess they have. They would be happy with just 1,000.

The key question for open source is, Which open source technologies are mature enough to survive the consolidation that's coming? Linux? Definitely. Eclipse? Definitely. Mozilla? Most likely.

There's an acknowledgement that somebody is going to build some stuff that's going to be competitive with what we do. But that's OK--that's part of being a platform. There's been a belief change internally.

We're very opportunistic when it comes to open source.