Larry Ellison Internet Quotations

We 're not changing our strategy. We have an Internet strategy; we decided that four years ago.

Four years ago at Telecom 95, I made some people very angry when I said the PC is a ridiculous device. Now the Internet has pushed the PC off stage, and will eventually change, not just the industry, but our economies and cultures.

Oracle's database and e-Business applications have become the software standard for the Internet, ... All 10 of the world's biggest Web sites use Oracle, as do 93 percent of the public dot.com companies. The faster the Internet grows, the faster we grow.

As the Internet grows, that's driving our top line, ... Last quarter, our software business grew 30 percent.

There's only one program that's really important on your PC and that's an Internet browser. Once you have access to the Internet, you have everything computing has to offer,

Back in 1995, it was very clear to us that we had to stop doing desktop software and we don't do any desktop Windows software, ... We moved everything to big Internet servers. Our database is designed for the Internet, our applications are designed for the Internet.

If the Internet turns out not to be the future of computing, we're toast. But if it is, we're golden.