Wednesday, May 17, 2006
CRN | Sapphire, SAP | Agassi On Partnering, Oracle
CRN Sapphire, SAP Agassi On Partnering, Oracle: "But other competitors are making what he called 'desperation moves.'
'When you go and hire 12 taxis, put signs on them and run them to drive around this show, you're in desperation mode,' he said alluding to Oracle.
'You can't expect a serious enterprise company that comes to Sapphire to look at 12 circulating taxis and think: 'This is a company I'd like to partner with for the rest of my life.' You make a clown out of yourself. When you skew your numbers that you just reported in an SEC report and you take a line from my presentation, cut the beginning and the end and put portions in the Wall Street Journal, you make a clown out of yourself and it just plays into our hands. But it plays against the industry. One clown in the industry makes us all look less serious,' he noted. "
'When you go and hire 12 taxis, put signs on them and run them to drive around this show, you're in desperation mode,' he said alluding to Oracle.
'You can't expect a serious enterprise company that comes to Sapphire to look at 12 circulating taxis and think: 'This is a company I'd like to partner with for the rest of my life.' You make a clown out of yourself. When you skew your numbers that you just reported in an SEC report and you take a line from my presentation, cut the beginning and the end and put portions in the Wall Street Journal, you make a clown out of yourself and it just plays into our hands. But it plays against the industry. One clown in the industry makes us all look less serious,' he noted. "
