Marketplace Quotes
[Benioff contends that this approach will eventually change the entire structure of his industry. Software over the Web -- commonly called on-demand -- accounted for less than 10% of the $46 billion in corporate software sold last year. But he says creating an open marketplace for on-demand software will help cause the decline of the big, complex, and expensive corporate applications sold by the likes of SAP ( SAP ) and Oracle Corp. ( ORCL ).] It's a big leap for us... We think it will show the world the next step for on-demand computing, just as we showed the world the first step.
- Marc Benioff
[Acquisitions] will be tempered, at least in the U.S., by the kind of defensive postures that a lot of these IT firms have right now. They want to see which way the economy is going, and when is the IT marketplace going to start buying stuff again. There is no point in buying a company if its products or services are not being purchased.
- Ed Yourdon
[According to Potter, what an operator ends up paying for a license is irrelevant to the market.] They pay their $32 billion or whatever, and it is gone. It is not relevant whether they get a return on their money -- it's not so much an issue for us in the marketplace, ... The cost gets split up on the value chain.
- David Potter
[Abdul-Jabbar is not the only former NBA player looking -- without success -- to get back in the game.] There are numerous Hall of Fame players who would like an opportunity to work in the NBA, ... and hundreds more who are not in the Hall of Fame. We field calls, meet with many of them and sometimes even hire them in our coaching camps to expose them to teams. In the end, the marketplace takes care of itself.
- David Stern
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