Jeffrey Henley, executive vice-president and chief financial officer at Oracle Corp also dropped in, and his message for attendees was that the company’s near-term strategy is to grow market share even if this means margins will grow more slowly than usual – hopefully we will have some margin growth this year, but our major goal is market share growth: Oracle has a 43% worldwide share of the market for databases running under Unix but Henley said the company wants to expand that market share even further; Oracle also hopes to expand its share of the desktop market, where it now has about a 38% share, he said; president Lane elaborated on this, saying that the time is ideal for chasing share because the customer base is in the midst of expanding the use of databases from individual departments to the entire company, giving Oracle the chance to win new customers as they develop company-wide databases; Henley sees database industry growth as strong in 1995 as it has been in 1994, and faster in Europe.
