Quotes by Shai Agassi

“Organizations have started to create road maps that will enable their transition to a service-oriented architecture. As such, the SAP TechEd events create a community for success by allowing customers, partners and developers to share and accelerate knowledge surrounding SAP NetWeaver while they discover how existing processes and IT landscapes can be transformed into enablers of business innovation and change.”

“After the Enterprise Services Architecture, your applications world will be made from apps by us based on these services, apps from ISVs...and apps you build yourself.”

“We all talk about how great Linux is, ... But if you look at the most innovative desktop today, Microsofts Vista is not copying Linux, it is copying Apple.”

“Larry is a very smart man. You can quote me on that.”

“We are standing behind what we say.”

“They didnt want to say up front, Youre going to have to migrate from your software, because those words would have created a tremor. Now its been a year, and what theyre saying is, Were not going to take that code, were just going to take some of the ideas. You cant do automatic migrations because its rewritten. If Im looking at a whole new implementation, why is it going to Oracle?”

“It looks great on PowerPoint, but on planet Earth, it wont fly. Salesforce.com is a CRM company. Marc is trying to make noise and buzz about something bigger, but thats all it is.”

“We wont do the kind of announcement Siebel has done.”

“Unlike other vendors, we have no lock-in.”

“I dont know what happens 5 or 10 years down the road.”

You cant have thousands of cars without good computers on the electric grid.