From PierceED@csus.edu Thu, 22 Mar 2001 11:43:58 -0800 From: "Eric D. Pierce" Date: Thu, 22 Mar 2001 11:43:58 -0800 Subject: RE: But all is not gloom and doom for Oracle... Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Good points. The only thing I know about (as a non-expert) that might be worth adding is that that there are some people in the "legitimate" investment sector that supposedly ran some extremely unethical (and large scale) "pump-and-dump" type operations (short sales, and so forth) on high-tech/dot-com stocks. Wired magazine's web site has an article about how such scheme's work(ed). Written by one of the wheeler-dealers that did it. As far as I know (admittedly almost zero), there was no direct involvement of Oracle stocks in such unethical practices. regards, ep On 22 Mar 2001, at 4:37, Boivin, Patrice J wrote: Date sent: Thu, 22 Mar 2001 04:37:06 -0800 To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L > I agree, Tim. > > Everything is relative to the context -- Oracle is well positioned right > now, as are the other companies that produce tangible products. > > There are thousands of people who "played" with Internet stock trading, many > of them buying shares on margin. Now they were burned a little, they > retreated in a panic hence the drop in market share for the NASDAQ firms. > > In reality, Oracle is a solid company ... -- Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.com -- Author: Eric D. Pierce INET: PierceED@csus.edu Fat City Network Services -- (858) 538-5051 FAX: (858) 538-5051 San Diego, California -- Public Internet access / Mailing Lists -------------------------------------------------------------------- To REMOVE yourself from this mailing list, send an E-Mail message to: ListGuru@fatcity.com (note EXACT spelling of 'ListGuru') and in the message BODY, include a line containing: UNSUB ORACLE-L (or the name of mailing list you want to be removed from). You may also send the HELP command for other information (like subscribing).