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It's a complicated task, ... I think Siebel just made it significantly more complex at a relatively late date.

Josh Greenbaum

This gives us an even larger opportunity than before. What we're seeing now is that Oracle is going to be very busy internally. Oracle has a lot of work to do to digest PeopleSoft and now Siebel. That's an opportunity for us.

Bernard Liautaud

Oracle kind of has the backbone to be in the hosted business, but it isn't, while Siebel already is.

Ivan Feinseth

Today is a great day for Siebel Systems' customers, partners, shareholders, and employees.

Thomas Siebel

The combination of Siebel applications with the development capacity of Oracle to enhance our CRM product set assures our customers continuing success. This is a very beneficial business combination that will allow us to be even more effective in delivering high quality, leading-edge solutions into the hands of satisfied customers.

Thomas Siebel

By purchasing Siebel, Oracle has acquired an additional 3.4 million CRM (Customer Resource Management) users and the maintenance fees that go with that kind of installed base.

Janet White

By purchasing Siebel, Oracle has acquired an additional 3.4 million CRM users and the maintenance fees that go with that kind of installed base. However, where Oracle may be able to compete with (German rival) SAP on numbers in the short term, they may have trouble competing longer term on product innovation.

Janet White

The contributions from Siebel were appropriately conservative. And the (operating expenditure) synergies are in line with expectations. Perhaps the most salient surprise was an increase in the license guidance for core Oracle.

Adam Holt

We would be delighted to hear from any Siebel employee that would like to join our company that meets our rigorous standard for excellence and dedication to customer success.

Marc Benioff

This only provides additional confusion within the Siebel installed base. ... The reality is, in the near term, nobody is going to sign a new deal with Siebel.

Peter Coleman

Siebel could see the writing on the wall and knew the time had come to make a deal.

Tom Dwyer

Everyone knows there's no love lost between Larry Ellison and Tom Siebel.

Jim Mendelson

We have decades of experience implementing enterprise applications around the world with 5,000 to 8,000 people working on enterprise applications, customizing ERP and CRM. We have strategic Oracle, Siebel, PeopleSoft and other alliances.

Chris Weitz

They have aggressively wanted to dominate the applications space for the past two years. Their aggressive moves to acquire PeopleSoft and Siebel have certainly put them in line with SAP this year in regards to the applications platform.

Noel Yuhanna

Siebel CRM OnDemand was built on Siebel 7.5.2, and the fact is that that product line runs on any database and any application server. We created a partnership with IBM and we chose for that partnership, for obvious reasons, to run it on WebSphere and DB2. There is no technical linkage. We can make a different decision going forward if we choose.

Bruce Cleveland

The combination of Siebel applications with the development capacity of Oracle to enhance our (client relation management) product set ... is a very beneficial business combination that will allow us to be even more effective in delivering high quality, leading edge solutions.

Thomas Siebel

Following the proposed acquisition of Siebel by Oracle many existing Siebel employees may be concerned about their career prospects, ... We want to offer them an alternative to an environment of declining commissions, confused customers and uncertainty around career viability.

Marc Benioff

Siebel is undeniably the highest functionality. For my money it would be silly not to take the functionality and express it in what is going to be Fusion.

David Bradshaw

They need to make it as clear about [what] they are doing with Siebel as they did last year with PeopleSoft.

Marc Hebert

We won't do the kind of announcement Siebel has done.

Shai Agassi

[Siebel is celebrating its triumph over the SEC.] This was a win not only for Siebel but for all public companies trying to do the right thing, ... We contested the SEC's claims in order to exonerate the company and its executives and to bring clarity to an important issue that was mishandled by the regulators.

Kathleen Sullivan

Unfortunately, the fix changes Outlook so drastically for many organizations that have applications integrated with it, such as Siebel, PeopleSoft, or SAP, that those applications just aren't going to function they way they're supposed to.

Chris Letocq

Given Siebel's announcement [Thursday], we look forward to a favorable Siebel stockholder meeting on Jan. 31st and completion of the merger on the same day or very soon after.

Bob Wynne

Although Siebel is paying a hefty premium for this small company, its large market cap should enable it to absorb this acquisition with modest dilution this year and none next year.

Melissa Eisenstat

We believe the acquisition will close as expected, but we are not anticipating Oracle's guidance to reflect the exceptionally strong Siebel results going forward.

John Rizzuto

It's going to be hard. It's a complicated task. I think Siebel just made it significantly more complex at a relatively late date.

Josh Greenbaum

Please note that most - but not all - Siebel employees are currently eligible for hire at salesforce.com today and that the recruiting department will screen for eligibility.

Marc Benioff