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Safra A. Catz

Profession : Businesswoman

Birth : December 1, 1961

My dream job was to work in an ice cream shop. Two weeks and five pounds later, I realized it wasn't for me. For many years, I had planned to be a corporate lawyer. As luck would have it, other than a summer internship, I didn't end up doing that either.

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The fact is that our business is fundamentally really strong. We have a platform and a depth that no one in the tech industry has. This means we have competitors at every layer.

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What we need to do is run our business. We need to come up with a value prop that is so compelling that customers have to go for it.

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SAP is a great company, but they have their work cut out for them if they want to compete in databases.

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At Oracle, silver medal is first loser.

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Microsoft does platform, not really infrastructure, and they do a little bit of Saas.

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We got bigger, much scarier competitors. We ended up with Microsoft, a company with all the money in the world, the way I look at those guys. And IBM, another company that, historically, dwarfed us.

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It is absolutely critical for competitiveness in the United States for us to really raise the bar in education, especially in math, in science, in technology.

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The way deals are done, every idea is looked at 50 different ways. Now, the market continues to change all the time. And we are always looking at everything in evaluating how it fits with our strategy.

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Oracle is obsessed with security. It's an absolute requirement for all our products. The real security issue is when customers take older products that were not built for the Internet, and kind of rack them and put them on the Internet.

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Digital India is about empowering the citizen - it's mobile, it's cloud, it's storage - we are in all those areas.

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Oracle is my second job ever that did not involve waitressing. But I still have my waitress apron just in case this does not work out. It's just that I fell in love with software when I was programming in college. When I was an investment banker, there were mostly mainframe companies and very few software ones.

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First of all, we have infrastructure as a service, which Amazon has; we have platform as a service, which Microsoft has; we have software as a service; we have applications. Nobody has everything except us. We also have data as a service.

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There are so many immigrant-led success stories in the United States, and the fact that it's gotten so much harder for educated folks to stay here is really unfortunate.

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The Indian market is potentially the largest market in the world with the leadership at both central and state level focused on leapfrogging into the future.

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I teach at the Stanford Business School, and about half of my students are foreign, many of whom, I hope, will stay and build businesses in U.S. But I must tell you that they also have opportunities to come back to India and start great companies and operations.

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Digital India is the only way for citizen empowerment, which can bring government transparency and accountability to citizens.

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The truth is that technology is only valuable if it helps you run your organization better.

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In the cloud, customers don't want a six-month contract negotiation; that concept is absurd when you can implement a cloud-based suite from beginning to end in a month or a few months.

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Whether you're a government entity, a large enterprise, or a startup, a true digital transformation takes advantage of technology to focus on the customer, automates work that does not need manual interference, and unleashes your people to truly make decisions that change the path of your company.

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