you knew me from peoplesoft. >> the ceo of workday, those people continue. >> so neil is at peoplesoft. that is west of the oracle thing. he did get into adventure capital. went right back in. so he has a message which says, look, we're not as big -- this is what i meanly less chasm to cross. we're going to swap out your on premise solution with a solution which, by the way, we built that for you. so when we swap it out, you know it's going to be good. and you'll fwet all the advantages of the staff. so that was a -- he was able to use a quieter, more just kind of frankly just sort of i will take care of you more reliable way. >> you consult, speak, meet a lot of people. what gives you courage or faith or understanding that somebody is likely to be a leader? it is the personality? it is their understanding of the technology? is it the time is just right? what gives you a good gut feeling? >> boy. it is a gut feeling. maybe i guess authenticity. so, you know, some of these people are larger than life. they can be authentically larger than life. >> groucho marks. you got it made. >> ther

during the fiscal year the city implemented a new payroll system called emerge peoplesoft and it consolidated the previous human resources as well as the different payroll processes that are used by the different departments. because of the conversion to the system we noticed a lot of policies and procedures used during fiscal year were based on the previous payroll system used. so, our recommendation is for the controller's office as the oversight department to issue new guidelines that are applicable to the emerge system and for the departments to follow those different guidelines. on page 9 starts the status of the prior year recommendations in the previous fiscal year audits we identified two different recommendations. the first one related to the successor agency of the redevelopment agency and the finding that we had identified was that due to the dissolution of the redevelopment agency, the accounting department for the agency needed additional help in terms of accounting and financial reporting functions. and, so, the corrective action that the city had implemented was to assign all c

between cisco and oracle, oracle has been extra aggressive about things like acquisition -- remember peoplesofttems -- it's been key and brought them a different outcome than ciscos, other names that tended to get distracted, or have acquisitions that weren't transformulative enough. >> for the past couple of years, it's been focused abroad. chambers has focused on the tax structure. when you look at orders in the u.s., they're up 7%, and in the emerging markets, down 7%. i'm wondering if you think this strategy is panning out or if you think they'll have to rethink that? >> they're doing some investing and hiring overseas. i was talking to rob lloyd, the head of operations a couple of weeks ago, talking about the amount of investment they're doing there versus here. what they're able to do there, investment-wise, hiring-wise, has benefit for stuff they're selling in the u.s. it's not that when they make investment overseas that's just meant to power growth overseas. it's meant for product, they end up selling here. and here is where the money is being made. >> lance, your take on this, they ha