Oracle, every mention
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Verbatim, from the transcripts: the passages where Oracle comes up
a16z Podcast | How Technology Is Changing Investing
- ▶ 9:31 Josh Levin We just had to vote on Oracle and, um, whether they should report on the gender pay gap in their company and what they're gonna do about it.
a16z Podcast | The Evolution of Payments
- ▶ 3:24 John Collison And, you know, there's so many large companies, the Oracles and the sales forces of the world, such that everything is now really dialed, and you can read all this expertise.
- ▶ 6:13 John Collison In a way, this is what Oracle did, where you start out building databases, and then you just keep asking your customers, what are you using this database for?
a16z Podcast | The $200 PC in the Enterprise
- ▶ 7:24 Benedict Evans So just, just to be clear, when you say, is that, when you say they might have a thousand, is it, that might be like 500 different things built on the same Oracle thing or something?
a16z Podcast | Monetizing Open Source (Or, All Enterprise Software)
- ▶ 2:16 James Waters If you look at IBM and Oracle, Microsoft, SAP, et cetera, what they get right in is a very basic thing is they understand how to cater to enterprises. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 4:09 James Waters So if you go back to enterprises being the source of the money, you know, Oracle didn't magically just exist one day. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 13:58 James Waters Larry Ellison famously did it with Larry Lennox.
- ▶ 17:01 James Waters I'll use the word being high end, meaning that IBM and Oracle are
- ▶ 20:31 James Waters And suddenly IBM and Oracle's earnings are missing every time.
- ▶ 21:53 James Waters If you compare it to what IBM or Oracle or SAP or Microsoft or any of the megas, they still haven't caught that size of a trend. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 26:09 James Waters Like, if you look at our biggest buyers, they don't want to get into what Oracle is doing to them right now. 3 times in the scene
a16z Podcast | The Changing Culture of Open Source
- ▶ 33:42 Sonal Chokshi We haven't even talked about Oracle and, and, uh, Google.
- ▶ 33:58 Michael Rogers So, Oracle acquired Sun.
a16z Podcast | From Data Warehouses to Data Lakes
- ▶ 1:53 Gaurav Dhillon If you bought something, say, from Oracle, somebody in Redwood Shores, California, designed a way in which you balanced your books, and that's what you did. 2 times in the scene
a16z Podcast | All About Microservices
- ▶ 7:14 Adrian Cockcroft We had this enormous Oracle machine with a really complicated schema to a distributed, uh, NoSQL database in the end, based on lots of different Cassandra clusters. 2 times in the scene
a16z Podcast | It's Complicated
- ▶ 12:47 Frank Chen Facebook or Netflix, and I would argue that the Wall Street banks build physics thinking into their data centers, which is you had these massive sun servers and EMC arrays and Oracle databases, and you paid attention to every single one of…
a16z Podcast | Not all Network Effects Are Created Equal
a16z Podcast | Software Programs the World
- ▶ 25:36 Marc Andreessen One of the consequences that will be interesting to watch play out is that historically enterprise software has, has been described as represented by companies like Oracle, SAP, IBM.
a16z Podcast | Startups and Pendulum Swings Through Ideas, Time, Fame, and Money
- ▶ 35:48 Marc Andreessen And then we would, you know, these giant companies, Oracle, and Sun, and Cisco, and, and so on, would, would, would build these great tools, and then would, would sell them to the customers, and the customer might be a consumer at home,… 3 times in the scene
a16z Podcast | Innovation vs. Invention at Google I/O
- ▶ 14:41 Benedict Evans Um, and it is actually as, as Oracle is currently suing Google over exactly this question of whether Android is basically, basically Java.
a16z Podcast | Making the Most of the Data That Matters
- ▶ 23:58 Steven Sinofsky Recognize that the CIOs in the room are dealing with a, a very, um, you know, real challenge and real opportunity, which is, I'm guessing, for most all the people in this room, their system of record is an on-prem, structured, sequel,…
a16z Podcast | What Software Developers (and Therefore Every Company) Need
- ▶ 6:56 Jeff Lawson Three years to install, and it was a big deal, and you bought all your software from Oracle and Microsoft and a few others, and in that world, you know, I like to call it high-stakes software, right? 2 times in the scene
a16z Podcast | What Comes After the Smartphone
- ▶ 14:21 Steven Sinofsky Like the mainframes were interesting, but really look at Oracle and the databases that got created. 2 times in the scene
a16z Podcast | Dell + EMC -- Why the Python Just Ate the Cow
- ▶ 6:48 Peter Levine There was a time when Wall Street was the blueprint for the next-gen data center, and that was, you know, kind of Cisco and EMC and Oracle databases and Sun Microsystems servers, and that was kind of the blueprint, you know, five, 10, 15…
a16z Podcast | AMPLab, the Power of Open Source, and the Future of Systems Software
- ▶ 5:27 Peter Levine Enterprise and infrastructure software, system software, was traditionally done by folks, let's say, leaving Cisco or leaving Oracle and, 4 times in the scene
a16z Podcast | Talking Humans and Machines with NYT’s John Markoff
- ▶ 11:47 John Markoff I had made that argument in my mind that these, the, you know, the arrival of the internet coupled with companies like SAP and PeopleSoft and Oracle and IBM who are re-engineering the white-collar clerk class inside, ah, corporations has…
a16z Podcast | Why Every Business is in the Data Business
- ▶ 4:31 Peter Levine It was EMC storage, an Oracle database, a Sun Microsystems server, and a Cisco switch.
- ▶ 12:41 Ash Ashatosh Peter was pointing out you had EMC, Cisco, Oracle, and rest of the folks.
a16z Podcast | When Bio Meets Computer Science
- ▶ 29:39 Marc Andreessen It's probably an initial outlay of twenty million dollars to get going, and you had to write big checks to these big companies like Sun and EMC and Cisco and Oracle to just get a website up and running.
a16z Podcast | Dealing with Corporate Dealmakers -- When to Talk to Corp Dev
- ▶ 3:27 Tyson Clark If you, if you look at, ah, the corporate development teams on the enterprise side, and so I'm, I'm talking about Oracle, and Cisco, and VMware, and those kind of companies, they tend to be more M&A execution focused, ah, and, and so you,…
- ▶ 6:12 unnamed speaker Would you guys, um, when you guys were at Google, I mean, James, you're at Google and Tyson, you were at Oracle.
- ▶ 10:37 James Loftus And so, you know, I think, you know, knowing the corporate development team at Google, knowing the corporate development team at Yahoo, probably very much so the corporate development team at Oracle, 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 14:29 Sonal Chokshi And then for you guys coming out of Google, Yahoo, and Oracle, just as examples, um, how did you guys sort of address, like, how did you guys
- ▶ 15:49 Tyson Clark Yeah, so, I mean, I, I say, you know, in terms of, so we, we, we did a number of strategic investments at Oracle, and, you know, I, I think the way, um, the mechanisms that we use to, to, to keep our competitors at bay with our, with the…
- ▶ 20:03 James Loftus Because, like, each of the companies I've worked at, I know Oracle, a lot of the companies we've talked to, everyone has a, sometimes slightly, and sometimes, like, significantly different process.
a16z Podcast | Apple Gets Its Music Streaming and Gives News Another Try
- ▶ 22:49 Benedict Evans iTunes, which still runs either on SAP or Oracle.
a16z Podcast | Why SaaS Revenue is Worth More Than Traditional Software Sales
- ▶ 19:32 Scott Cooper You know, when I look at kind of a lot of the big incumbent players out there, whether it's an Oracle or an SAP or others, and they're competing, you know, against, you know, market segments that NetSuite and others have, you know, how do…
a16z Podcast | Verizon Plus AOL -- Why? -- The Short Answer is Mobile
- ▶ 10:00 Chris Dixon And I'm forgetting there's two, two other, uh, uh, Oracle bought one, right?
a16z Podcast | Getting Sales Right
- ▶ 5:03 Daniel Shapero If Salesforce or Oracle or SuccessFactors basically slash prices by 70%, could they sell their products online?
a16z Podcast | Where the Growth in Cloud and Enterprise Software Really Is (with Marc Benioff)
- ▶ 2:53 Marc Benioff A lot of the things that were talked about then kind of have come to pass now, but in a radically different form, and I think that's kind of the nature of technology, is that you have to kind of be watching for kind of where things are…
- ▶ 4:49 Marc Benioff Um, we had a, um, I was still at Oracle. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 24:20 Marc Andreessen That does help a fair amount in between your job at Oracle. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 33:28 Marc Benioff At Oracle, you know, we have the people, we have, but I couldn't get the throughput, but at Salesforce, we have the throughput.
a16z Podcast | What Makes the Valley Work
- ▶ 5:16 Marc Andreessen Um, and then that interfered with the mission that we always had, which is how do you build big, enduring, franchise, important, you know, our, our role models were always, you know, Microsoft and Oracle and Intel and Cisco and IBM and…
- ▶ 27:22 Marc Andreessen It's just, it's, at this point, it's 40 or 50 years of history, and you just drive up and down one on one, and it's like, oh, there's Oracle, there's Intel, there's Cisco, there's, you know, Apple, and you just,
a16z Podcast | The (Definite) Optimism of Peter Thiel
- ▶ 36:38 Peter Thiel Old tech stocks, like Oracle, or IBM, or Microsoft, where you, um, you financially model them like government bonds, and the most important variable in evaluating them is the discount rate. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 37:43 Marc Andreessen Define a technology company, and then describe your view of some of the large incumbents like Microsoft and Oracle, and why you don't necessarily view them as technology companies. 4 times in the scene
a16z Podcast | Apple Takes on Payments and Your Wrist
- ▶ 30:57 Benedict Evans And yes, iOS A is full of cloud, and yes, there's all these really tightly integrated and very clever things that use the cloud to enable these devices, but, you know, the email is running on Oracle, the find my phone is running on… 2 times in the scene
a16z Podcast | The Consumerization of IT
- ▶ 12:06 Florian Leibert SunGrid engine, for example, doesn't generally run on, uh, on VMware.
a16z Podcast | The Micro and Macro of Mobile
- ▶ 9:19 Benedict Evans Um, and I think to the point of, of, of, of the Apple IBM deal, um, you know, this is a story around, there's, there's a kind of, there's a, there's a wonky art narrative here, which is says, well, you know, it couldn't be HP cause HP…
a16z Podcast | Datacenter of the Future
- ▶ 1:20 Chris Dixon Can you kind of explain just, like, so in the old days, or whatever, five years ago, if you're, you would go as a company, and you would, you would rent space from Rackspace, or so, or whatever, some physical data center, you would install… 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 9:52 Peter Levine and, you know, um, uh, disk drives from a PC and Microsoft software and Oracle data, that was the, that was quote-unquote commodity.
a16z Podcast | Bending Every Pixel to Your Will -- Optimizely and the Next Wave of Internet Tools
- ▶ 7:10 Scott Weiss Like, you walk into IBM or Oracle or any of those old companies, like, I don't, I think a designer walks in there and gets hives. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 8:58 Scott Weiss I remember implementing Oracle Financial and I had EDS at Ironport for like three months training everybody how to use it.
- ▶ 17:39 Scott Weiss Like, I think the same consolidation that happened where IBM and Oracle and even Salesforce and others were buying these companies, 2 times in the scene
a16z Podcast | Valuing Today's Fast-Growing Software Companies
- ▶ 2:49 Scott Cooper Yeah, so maybe we just, maybe we should unpack it a little bit, because, uh, you know, for, for everybody, so maybe just a simple example, the way I think about it, right, so if you're Oracle, right, in a traditional model, you know, I go…
- ▶ 8:06 Scott Cooper So again, if we kind of go back to maybe the simple example we started with, you know, that Oracle customer, you know, that customer is going to give us a bunch of license revenue upfront. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 23:08 Jamie McGurk I truly believe that it's more of a switch in the mindset because fundamentally, you know, the difference between, um, you know, whether it's an Oracle or, or, uh, or kind of one of the, the older perpetual license model, fundamentally… 2 times in the scene