Re: Hmmm, it's starting....

Daniel Morgan <damorgan_at_x.washington.edu> wrote in message news:<1074796184.912172_at_yasure>...
> Noons wrote:
>
> > "Daniel Morgan" <damorgan_at_x.washington.edu> wrote in message news:1074784204.280990_at_yasure...
> >
> >>Ok now I'm both surprised and hurt. Not once with Oracle 6, 7, 8, 8i or
> >>9i was I ever invited to be a Beta site. Where's that #@%$^&%# bottle of
> >>scotch? ;-)
> >
> >
> > Single malt, please! :)
>
> But of course.

Just watch out for explosive vapors on the Lunar New Year!

>
> >>That ... is unrealistic. It is hard to find a company that even believes
> >>it owes its own employees a job any more.
> >
> >
> > Doesn't invalidate the owing.
>
> I think it does. The "expectation" was, methinks, unreasonable. Because
> you often come home at 6:00pm are you obligated to always come home at
> 6:00pm? Well your wife may think so ... but what's your opinion? ;-)

Go back and hit up the old law books on "detrimental reliance" and "promissory estoppel" and other contract theories that I can't quite remember the name of.
http://www.murdoch.edu.au/elaw/issues/v1n3/clarke.txt

But actually I agree with you about whether Oracle owes anyone a Beta, and mostly with your opinion of whiners in this case. I do think there is something in the whining that a rational Oracle Corp should take note of, at least public relations, and perhaps a reminder of where their income stream will come from.

>
> >>>since then. Ah well irrelevant, I'm sure.
> >>
> >>When you are the biggest that does tend to be growth limiting unless you
> >>want to play monopoly games like you know who.
> >
> >
> > Explain that to the "constant growth" gurus of the stock market.
>
> Easier to explain it to the people they keep taking to the cleaners.

They are very _clean_ herds of wildebeests.

jg

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